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?

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 excluded from all the goodies that come with English. 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.

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

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

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

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

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