Cyfweliad â dau awdur o Affrica sy’n sôn am eu rhesymau dros dewis Saesneg yn lle eu hieithoedd brodorol.

Whatever their choices, African poets know that they are excluding part of their intended audience and limiting their own creative mode of expression, since most are, because of colonization, quite literally multi-lingual people. Within these choices of language, such multi-lingual African poets find limitations to overcome and freedoms to enjoy. Use of the English language, which carries the baggage of the oppressor’s culture, usually becomes a mode of stimulating mental exercise. On the other hand, the Shona and Ndebele languages, which are most Zimbabwean poets’ more natural forms of communication and expression of feelings, unfortunately limit the global exposure of their work.
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