He lashed out at those who critiqued African writers from the outside, saying: "no man can understand another whose language he does not speak (and 'language' here does not mean simply words, but a man's entire world view)."
他反击了那些从外部批评非洲作家的人，说：“没人能理解别人，如果他不说后者的语言（这儿‘语言’不止指词汇，而且至人的整个世界观）”。