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

We can appreciate each other's languages. And the question of being uncomfortable about our languages would go away.

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."

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

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

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

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 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? How did we arrive at this, that the best leader is the one that knows how to beg for a share of what he has already given away at the price of a broken tool? Where is the future of Africa?