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.

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.

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

A person who acquires English has access to all the things that that language makes possible.

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 - then they begin to see through their language that the problems described there are the same as the problems they are having. They can identify with characters from another language group.

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.

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 their lives, but in translation, since they do not read the Bible in the original Greek or Hebrew.