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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.

— Kola Tubosun

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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.

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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