What is translated from English and into English - and in what quantities - is a question of … - Ngugi wa Thiong'o

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Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having a delight in such vanities, mark the events where they are fulfilled, but where they fail, though this happen much oftener.

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

What is translated from English and into English - and in what quantities - is a question of power.

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I'm writing for those people in Kenya, but in Irvine and in New York.

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Through the act of translation we break out of linguistic confinement and reach many other communities.

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

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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; 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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People look at me as spiritual. . . but I am also very logical, very business-minded. The two come together.

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Between these two, the denying of sins, which we have done, and the bragging of sins, which we have not done, what a space, what a compass is there, for millions of millions of sins!

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