“I think a repressive regime always fears people who are awakened - particularly ordinary people. If they are awakened, I think governments all over the world feel uncomfortable about that; they want to be in control. They want to be the ones telling people: "This is what we have done in history" but when people begin to say, "No this is what we have done in history" it's a different thing.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWantFeelsDifferentDoneGovernmentOrdinaryUncomfortableDifferent ThingsRegimesOrdinary PeopleAwakened Author:Ngugi wa Thiong'o
“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."” IfsWayWritingMadeLanguagePrison Author:Ngugi wa Thiong'o
“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.” IfsCharacterStoriesProblemCertainLanguageCommunityNovelWrittenGroupsParticularVery GoodIlluminating Author:Ngugi wa Thiong'o
“If poverty was to be sold three cents today, i can't buy it.” IfsI CanTodayThreePovertyCents Author:Ngugi wa Thiong'o