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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
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
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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Certain Character Community Good Illuminating Language Novel Particularly Story Written
How could Europe lord it over a continent ten times its size? Why does needy Africa continue to let its wealth meet the needs of those outside its borders and then follow behind with hands outstretched for a loan of the very wealth it let go?
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Birder Continent Country Hand Need Outside Outstretched Over Size Time Wealth
Christianity and Western civilization-what countless crimes have been committed in thy name!
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Christianity Civilisation Committed Country Crime Name Western
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
Through the act of translation we break out of linguistic confinement and reach many other communities.
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Act Break Community Confinement Linguistic Many Other Out Raech Translate
So what I thought was just an African problem or issue is actually a global phenomenon about relationships of power between languages and cultures.
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Country Culture Global Language Power Problem
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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Bible Country Effect Original Raed Translation
People went to war as a result of it and even today, every Sunday.
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Ever People War Result Sunday Today
Of course it’s very, very important for me to feel Kenya, to feel, every day, this is where images come from. So to be taken away from that by political pressure or other means – one is taken away from the area, which is the basis of inspiration – is difficult.
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Come Country Course Feel From Image Important
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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Being Country Even Keep Language Prison Put Say Write
Many people do not know that Jesus did not speak Latin or English or Hebrew; he spoke Aramaic. But nobody knows that language.
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Jesus Know Language Many People Speak
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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Breaking Committee Down Eye Light Mould Open Protective Pull Seek Strive Tomorrow Up Wish
If poverty was to be sold three cents today, i can’t buy it.
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Buy Cent Poverty Sold Three Today
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

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