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Any writer likes to be near the area which is the location of his work.

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

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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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The Pan-Africanism that envisaged the ideal of wholeness was gradually cut down to the size of a continent, then a nation, a region, an ethnos, a clan, and even a village in some instances But Pan-Africanism has not outlived its mission.
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If poverty was to be sold three cents today, i can’t buy it.
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What’s good about writing is that when you write novels or fiction, people can see that the problems in one region are similar to problems in another region.
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Christianity and Western civilization-what countless crimes have been committed in thy name!
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People went to war as a result of it and even today, every Sunday.
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Any writer likes to be near the area which is the location of his work.
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What is translated from English and into English – and in what quantities – is a question of power.
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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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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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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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The Bible has affected their lives, but in translation, since they do not read the Bible in the original Greek or Hebrew.
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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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The Bible in translation is being read to thousands and thousands in Africa. It is an integral part of their functioning and the way they look at the world.
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If a novel is written in a certain language with certain characters from a particular community and the story is very good or illuminating, then that work is translated into the language of another community.
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