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Quote by Keorapetse Kgositsile
As an African writer I did not have to sound like a carbon copy English boy if I wrote in English.
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The speaker rejects the idea that writing in English requires copying an English identity or voice. Calling himself an African writer, he insists that he can use English while still sounding distinctively like himself. The comparison to a “carbon copy” highlights the difference between using a language and imitating the people associated with it.
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- Cambridge University Press, African Issues
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