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

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

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

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

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 of the problems of rigged elections to do things that are unacceptable like ethnic cleansing and displacement of people. It's completely unacceptable.

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

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.