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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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