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Kola Tubosun Quotes

born 1981

Kọ́là Tùbọ̀sún (born 22 September 1981) is a Nigerian linguist, writer, and filmmaker best known for his work in African digital humanities. A Fulbright Fellow and Chevening Scholar, Túbọ̀sún has led efforts to integrate African languages into global technology, including the introduction of Nigerian English to Google’s voice recognition systems.

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Don’t wait. Start where you are, and use what you have, and be the change you want to see.

Translation is fascinating, mostly because it leads in many different directions. Sometimes, the final work is a totally new work entirely, bearing a new ideological direction.

Translating from Yoruba to English is easy. I don’t get paid to do that much. What is hard is translating from English to Yoruba, and this is because of many elaborate ways in which the Yorubas express themselves.

It is a disservice to the cultural kaleidoscope of the world today to try to deny us of such experience by shutting us up under one language lid. That that language must be English alone is worse, another contentious issue of its own. It insults the beauty of our collective cultural and religious diversities.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Kola Tubosun (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.