1. He is a researcher of Asian and African literatures.
    他研究亚非文学。

2. At the farthest end was someone they described as "the African", called Kin-tay.
    据她们说，（我们家）最早的祖先是一位非洲人，名字叫肯泰。

3. As time went on the African began to tell Kizzy more things about himself — even how he was captured, by whom, when.
    随着时间的推移，“老非洲”开始告诉吉西更多关于他自己的事情——甚至讲到他是怎样、被谁以及在什么时候被捉走的。

4. All Europeans are thought to be a mixed population, with 65% Asian and 35% African genes.
    "人们认为所有的欧洲人都是混合人种，有65%的亚洲人基因，35%的非洲人基因。

5. Ms. Mbogo launched her dream of a career in politics in 1992 by running for the Embu Council, facing the obstacles that often trouble African women running for political office.
    1992年，姆波戈女士开始追寻她的从政梦想，她竞选了恩布市议员。像其他打算从政的非洲妇女一样，她面对着很多障碍：

6. On that plantation the African married Belle, the house cook, another slave.
    在那个种植园，“老非洲”娶了一个名叫贝尔的奴隶，她是这个家的厨娘。

7. One day it occurred to me that the sounds the African uttered when pointing to different objects must have been words from some African language.
    一天，我忽然想到，“老非洲”指着不同物体发出的声音，一定是某种非洲语言中的词。

8. Obviously, that was the African´s "Napalis".
    很显然，这就是非洲人所说的“纳波利斯”。

9. One last point remained to be cleared up: Was the African ever called Toby?
    最后需要澄清的一点是：老非洲曾经叫托比吗？

10. Last year a journalist had been instructed by a well-known magazine to write an article on the president´s palace in a new African republic.
    去年，一位记者受一家有名的杂志的委托写一篇关于非洲某个新成立共和国总统府的文章。