We think of politics in terms of power and who has the power. Politics is the end to which that power is put..

The Bible affects everybody's life who is a Christian, from the middle class in Europe to the peasant in Africa and Asia. The Bible has affected thei….

There is no way we can survive as a nation in the world without finding unity..

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 whi….

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 throug….

Christianity and Western civilization-what countless crimes have been committed in thy name!.

Many people do not know that Jesus did not speak Latin or English or Hebrew; he spoke Aramaic. But nobody knows that language. So we're talking about….

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

I'm more trying to connect; I'm more listening to people. Whatever I get is very meaningful to me..

Life, struggle, even amidst pain and blood and poverty, seemed beautiful..

If poverty was to be sold three cents today, i can't buy it..

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….

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 o….

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

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 exclud….

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 d….

I think a repressive regime always fears people who are awakened - particularly ordinary people. If they are awakened, I think governments all over t….

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 lo….

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….

Why did Africa let Europe cart away millions of Africa's souls from the continent to the four corners of the wind? How could Europe lord it over a co….

In terms of language, English is very dominant vis-Ã-vis African language. That in itself is a power relationship - between languages and communities….