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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”
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.
Continue reading “From Orality to Ghostliness: Self-Translating the Haunted Self in African Literature”
In the current study, I investigate the obstacles inherent in translating African tonal languages, focusing on the Beninese Fon, into French. The Fon tonal system, made up of diacritical marks and tonal spelling, complicates the realization of an equitable translation and effective cultural mediation.
Continue reading “Cross-Cultural Communication: Translational Context of African Tonal Languages in the West”
This conference presentation is an adaptation of my M.A. Thesis, 2025.
Continue reading “ON TRANSLATING FRANCOPHONE AFRICAN AUTHORIAL STYLE IN PROSE: HOW TRANSLATORS’ CHOICES AFFECT ENGLISH AUDIENCES”
David Achodo 