The Crosslingual Memory Archive as a Decolonial Initiative

~ David Achodo

This presentation introduces my ongoing project, Crosslingual Memory Archive (CMA), a born-digital archive that curates, aligns, and represents an initial corpus of 136 Western poems and 90 African oral stories across English, Fon, French, and Yoruba.

Full abstract available here.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21514799.

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Published by David Achodo

David Achodo is a PhD candidate and Graduate Teaching Associate in French at the University of Tennessee, USA. He is the Primary Organizer and Founding Member of the “World Languages and Cultures Graduate Student Association,” University of Tennessee. A French, English, German, Fon, and Yoruba speaker, Achodo is a Scholar, Translator, Interpreter, Poet and Preacher.

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