“Ke ile ka khona ho fumana khoebo ea ka bosiu bo le bong. Khoebo ea ka e ile ea tšeptjoa hang-hang hobane e ne e se e na le lilemo tse ngata tsa ho ngola. I chose Sol Plaatje’s novel, Mhudi, as an example of a novel written in English, published by a well-known Motswana, about Batswana, but with the people he was writing about not being able to read it in their language. Mhudi is already chosen for a literary translation project named “Transcreation for Repatriation”, or “Phetsolelo in Setswana”, for which my promoter, Professor Shole, is collaborating with Mr Sabata Mokae of Sol Plaatje University, and which is ongoing. In my study, I was theorising how transcreation for repatriation can be done. This will assist other languages to do the same with their literary works written by Africans in English, or any European language – to bring them back into the language of the African author.