Crosslingual Memory Archive (CMA)

A born-digital archive of text and media in Colonial and African Languages, staging the kingdoms of Dahomey and Oyo, in West Africa.

Acknowledgment

My profound gratitude goes to Professor Hilary Havens for her availability, guidance, and support throughout this project. I am more than just grateful to my mother, Mrs. Collectte, for being such an inexhaustible source of inspiration for me. I also recognize the incredible help and support of the native speakers – Mr Mahutondji Firmin Bade, Evangelist Oluwasogo Adeola Adebolu, and Mrs Odunayo Rachael Adebolu – who generously assisted me in developing this archive. Their help was invaluable in bringing this project to reality.

Note: First self-published under Dachodo Press, this is a Digital humanities project carried out by me, David Achodo, as a requirement of the English 595 Section 001: Digital Humanities, taught by Professor Hilary Havens, in Spring 2026, at the University of Tennessee. All data curation, coding, organization, and translations are done by me.

Recommended citation: Achodo, David. Crosslingual Memory Archive. Dachodo Press, 2026. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.11509.13286.