Scholarship | Stanzas | Sacred
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.
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Growth. My story,
all I can give time, all I
can offer a twenty-eight
life. I was born when
the world was divided
by one. Vanity. The
guest at Eden.
In this study, I examine the challenges faced by Francophone African literary authors, such as Olympe Bhêly-Quénum, in self-translating the haunted, oral “self” into colonial languages. Like most African literary writers, Olympe Bhêly-Quénum enriches his works with African elements that describe his sociocultural background.
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David Achodo 