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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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Appreciate Being Language Other Question Uncomfortable Way
Writing in African languages became a topic of discussion in conferences, in schools, in classrooms; the issue is always being raised – so it’s no longer “in the closet,” as it were. It’s part of the discussion going on about the future of African literature.
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Become Classroom Conference Country Discussion Issue Language Longer No School Topic Write
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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Art Audience Beyond Could Country Language Practical Reach Revelation Sense Still Write
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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Country Culture Language Phenomenon Power Problem Relationship
What is translated from English and into English – and in what quantities – is a question of power.
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English Into Power Quantity Question Translate
How did we arrive at this, that the best leader is the one that knows how to beg for a share of what he has already given away at the price of a broken tool? Where is the future of Africa?
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Arrive Away Best Broken Future Known Leader Price
I was wondering why I was put in prison for working in an African language when I had not been put in prison for working in English. So really, in prison I started thinking more seriously about the relation between language and power.
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Country English Language Periostin Power Serious Wonder Work
We think of politics in terms of power and who has the power. Politics is the end to which that power is put.
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End Politic Power Put Term Think
Our lives are a battlefield on which is fought a continuous war between the forces that are pledged to confirm our humanity and those determined to dismantle it.
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Butterfield Confirm Continuous Determine Force Fought Live Pledge
People went to war as a result of it and even today, every Sunday.
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Ever People War Result Sunday Today
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In terms of language, English is very dominant vis-Ã-vis African language. That in itself is a power relationship – between languages and communities – because the English language is a determinant of the ladder to achievement.
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Country Dominant English Gradually Language Term
Another phenomenon developing in Kenya is ethnic cleansing – and that’s the thing that has made me very sad. Because some people will use the cover of the problems of rigged elections to do things that are unacceptable like ethnic cleansing and displacement of people. It’s completely unacceptable.
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Another Phenomena Cleansing Country Cover People Sad Some Use Very
I’m more trying to connect; I’m more listening to people. Whatever I get is very meaningful to me.
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Connect Listen Meaningful More People Try
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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Begin Different Done History One People Say Tell Thing
And even in terms of justice, law codes, the legal system. A person who does not know English in Africa is excluded from that system because he can only operate through acts of translation.
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Act Cide English Known Legal Operate Person System Trasnlotyion

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