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Seen as an economic, political, cultural, and psychological re-membering vision, it should continue to guide remembering practices

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Seen as an economic, political, cultural, and psychological re-membering vision, it should continue to guide remembering practices
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Why did Africa let Europe cart away millions of Africa’s souls from the continent to the four corners of the wind?
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Life, struggle, even amidst pain and blood and poverty, seemed beautiful.
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People went to war as a result of it and even today, every Sunday.
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It was a revelation for me, in a practical sense, that you could write in an African language and still reach an audience beyond that language through the art of translation.
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There is no way we can survive as a nation in the world without finding unity.
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Those who strive to build a protective wall around it, and those who wish to pull it down; those who seek to mould it and those committed to breaking it up; those who aim to open our eyes, to make us see the light and look to tomorrow […] and those who wish to lull us into closing our eyes
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We can appreciate each other’s languages. And the question of being uncomfortable about our languages would go away.
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They want to be the ones telling people: “This is what we have done in history” but when people begin to say, “No this is what we have done in history” it’s a different thing.
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I’m more trying to connect; I’m more listening to people. Whatever I get is very meaningful to me.
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For me, being in prison writing in an African language was a way of saying: “Even if you put me in prison, I will keep on writing in the language which made you put me in prison.”
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You get another person who operates only in an African language and there are many persons who operate only in African languages; he or she is excluded from all the goodies that come with English.
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A person who acquires English has access to all the things that that language makes possible.
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The same questions are there in Native American languages, they’re there in native Canadian languages, they’re there is some marginalized European languages, like say, Irish.
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Any writer likes to be near the area which is the location of his work.
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If poverty was to be sold three cents today, i can’t buy it.
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