Orality and Oral Forms Archives

Voices from Broken Places – Recording with Professor Assefa Dibaba
Voices from Broken Places – Recording with Professor Assefa Dibaba

Horn of Africa, Orality and Oral Forms

Voices from Broken Places – Recording with Professor Assefa Dibaba

By admin_mulosige|2019-12-10T10:25:57+01:00December 4th, 2019|Categories: Horn of Africa, Orality and Oral Forms|

Dr Assefa (aka Asafa) Tefera Dibaba is a poet, educator and researcher. He is the author of anthologies of poems in English and Oromo including: Anaany’aa (1998, 2006), Edas-Edanas (1997), Finfi (Ilyaada) (2014), Decorous Decorum (2006), and The Hug (2011), and has published works of prose including Danaa (2000), Eela (2009), Theorizing the Present

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Contemporary African Oral Traditions – Roundtable Recording
Contemporary African Oral Traditions – Roundtable Recording

Digital Humanities and Archiving, Horn of Africa, Orality and Oral Forms, Past events, Podcast

Contemporary African Oral Traditions – Roundtable Recording

By admin_mulosige|2019-11-26T10:39:22+01:00November 25th, 2019|Categories: Digital Humanities and Archiving, Horn of Africa, Orality and Oral Forms, Past events, Podcast|

Orature plays a determinant role in literary expression around the world, but unwritten verbal arts have been explicitly excluded from definitions of world literature. Watch the recording from the roundtable on Contemporary Oral African Traditions to learn more about orature's place in world literature.

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Oral Traditions in World Literature – Conference Programme
Oral Traditions in World Literature – Conference Programme

Events, Horn of Africa, Orality and Oral Forms

Oral Traditions in World Literature – Conference Programme

By admin_mulosige|2019-12-14T14:04:52+01:00October 31st, 2019|Categories: Events, Horn of Africa, Orality and Oral Forms|

The MULOSIGE project (Multilingual Locals, Significant Geographies: SOAS University of London) is organising the conference Oral Traditions in World Literature on the 17-18 December 2019. This conference will take place at the Addis Regency Hotel, Addis Ababa (Ethiopia). You can read the conference abstracts here or explore the conference programme. Oral Traditions

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MULOSIGE Reading List: Orature, World Literature and Mobility
MULOSIGE Reading List: Orature, World Literature and Mobility

Digital Humanities and Archiving, Members, MULOSIGE Syllabi, North India, Orality and Oral Forms, Popular and Pulp Fiction

MULOSIGE Reading List: Orature, World Literature and Mobility

By admin_mulosige|2019-08-05T16:08:17+01:00August 5th, 2019|Categories: Digital Humanities and Archiving, Members, MULOSIGE Syllabi, North India, Orality and Oral Forms, Popular and Pulp Fiction|Tags: colonial, film, history, language, mobility, North India, orature, popular culture|

Professor Catherine Servan-Schreiber (CNRS Paris) offers a reading list that explores orature and mobility in North Indian popular culture.

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Oral Traditions in World Literature – Addis Ababa Conference
Oral Traditions in World Literature – Addis Ababa Conference

Events, Horn of Africa, Itineraries, Literary Criticism, Orality and Oral Forms

Oral Traditions in World Literature – Addis Ababa Conference

By admin_mulosige|2019-11-04T12:53:25+01:00July 2nd, 2019|Categories: Events, Horn of Africa, Itineraries, Literary Criticism, Orality and Oral Forms|Tags: Addis Ababa, conference, Ethiopia, oral, orality, traditions|

In this conference, we argue that oral traditions are a vital component of world literature, and not only as an antecedent to written literatures, but in their own right. The conference seeks to move past the characterisation of oral literature as traditional, locally constrained, and less aesthetically complex than written literatures. We will show instead that oral traditions are a modern and dynamic form of literary expression everywhere around the world, sometimes able to circulate across long distances.

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Being Human
Being Human

Digital Humanities and Archiving, Maghreb, North India, Orality and Oral Forms, Past events, Podcast, Uncategorized

Being Human

By admin_mulosige|2019-05-14T16:08:16+01:00May 13th, 2019|Categories: Digital Humanities and Archiving, Maghreb, North India, Orality and Oral Forms, Past events, Podcast, Uncategorized|Tags: Arabic, Current Globalising Movement, libraries, music, stories, workshop|

In this podcast, Dr Vayu Naidu discusses the MULOSIGE project with Professor Francesca Orsini, Itzea Goikolea-Amiano and Jack Clift. As part of the Being Human festival, Dr Vayu Naidu gives a storytelling workshop at the N4 Library and discusses how multiple languages, improvisation and music can create fascinating new paths for stories and literature to travel across the world.

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The Oromo Reader (1894): Oromo folksongs and the sorrow of exile
The Oromo Reader (1894): Oromo folksongs and the sorrow of exile

Horn of Africa, Orality and Oral Forms, Reading, Uncategorized

The Oromo Reader (1894): Oromo folksongs and the sorrow of exile

By admin_mulosige|2019-04-12T14:16:26+01:00January 31st, 2019|Categories: Horn of Africa, Orality and Oral Forms, Reading, Uncategorized|Tags: exile, folklore, Horn of Africa, lyrics, Oromo, reading, The Oromo Reader|

The second blog post on the history of Oromo folklore looks at The Oromo Reader (1894) compiled by Aster Ganno and Onesimo Nasib.

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“A miniature Oromo academy in exile”: How former slaves pioneered Oromo studies
“A miniature Oromo academy in exile”: How former slaves pioneered Oromo studies

Horn of Africa, Orality and Oral Forms, Reading

“A miniature Oromo academy in exile”: How former slaves pioneered Oromo studies

By admin_mulosige|2019-04-12T14:16:38+01:00January 28th, 2019|Categories: Horn of Africa, Orality and Oral Forms, Reading|Tags: academy, Bible, eritrea, Ethiopia, Ethiopian empire, exile, former slaves, Massawa, Oromo, The Oromo Reader|

Dr Assefa Tefera Dibaba introduces the history of Oromo folklore studies.

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Multilingual Poetry: Kwame Write in Paris, Accra, Copenhagen
Multilingual Poetry: Kwame Write in Paris, Accra, Copenhagen

Horn of Africa, Orality and Oral Forms, Past events, Poetry, Reading

Multilingual Poetry: Kwame Write in Paris, Accra, Copenhagen

By July Blalack|2020-05-28T18:05:23+01:00August 11th, 2017|Categories: Horn of Africa, Orality and Oral Forms, Past events, Poetry, Reading|Tags: accra, Africa, ashanti, copenhagen, europe, feminism, ghana, inkfluent, itineraries, kwame aidoo, multilingualism, paris, performance, Poetry, spoken word|

Poetry doesn't need to be completely understood to be experienced, making it an ideal medium for multilingual expression. Here multimodal artist Kwame Write talks to MULOSIGE about the language of water and about multilingualism in his life and work.

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