My Night Ended Last Night. inaugurates the Dachodo Press Chapbook Series. It gathers poems of soul awakening, of restless becoming, of questions addressed to the Unquestionable, with trembling tongues.
Continue reading “My Night Ended Last Night. Voyage of Twenty-Eight Billion Years”Author: 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.
The Crosslingual Memory Archive as a Decolonial Initiative
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.
Continue reading “The Crosslingual Memory Archive as a Decolonial Initiative”My Night Ended Last Night
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.
David Achodo 