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SUMMARY:African Studies Global Virtual Forum: Decoloniality and Southern Epistem
	ologies–Inge Brinkman, Teshome Mossissa, Peter Wasamba
DESCRIPTION:\nBiographies:\n\nInge Brinkman is professor African studies
	 at Ghent University.\n\nTeshome Mossissa is associate professor of  lit
	erature in the Department of English language and literature at Jimma Un
	iversity.\n\nPeter Wasamba is professor of African literature at the Uni
	versity of Nairobi. He is also a lecturer of law and holds a position at
	 the High Court of Kenya.\n\nAbstract:\n\nIn this contribution we reflec
	t on our experiences with oral storytelling as a practice of ‘doing deco
	lonial development’. In our “Oral literature for Development”-project (O
	ral Literature for Development’ (OL4D)) we reposition oral literature fr
	om object of study to epistemological model. Rather than treating oral n
	arratives as secondary cultural artifacts\, we approach them as performa
	tive knowledge practices that articulate understandings of crisis situat
	ions – as these are often resolved in the course of the narrative.\n\nOu
	r VLIRUOS Team project brings together scholars from Kenya\, Ethiopia an
	d Belgium to develop the OL4D approach as a method for (re-)connecting y
	oung people with living traditions of oral literature\, particularly in 
	contexts where formal education and technocratic development paradigms h
	ave marginalized these forms.\n\nThrough theatre performances\, communit
	y and school workshops\, and collaborative analyses of genres in Gikuyu\
	, Swahili\, Digo\, and Oromo\, we explore how performative learning enab
	les youth to negotiate gendered crisis\, exclusion\, poverty\, disease\,
	 and ecological change through historically grounded narrative framework
	s from their own past.\n\nBy building interinstitutional South–South–Nor
	th partnerships and co-developing educational tools\, the OL4D project c
	hallenges dominant disciplinary hierarchies and encourages oral epistemo
	logies as an entry into academia and development knowledge as generative
	 sources of insight for development and scholarly inquiry.\n\nFor more d
	etails: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/afr-global-virtual-forum-brinkma
	n-mossissa-wasamba/
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<html><head></head><body><p>Biographies:<br
	 />Inge Brinkman is professor African studies at Ghent University.</p><p
	>Teshome Mossissa is associate professor of  literature in the Departmen
	t of English language and literature at Jimma University.</p><p>Peter Wa
	samba is professor of African literature at the University of Nairobi. H
	e is also a lecturer of law and holds a position at the High Court of Ke
	nya.</p><p>Abstract:<br />In this contribution we reflect on our experie
	nces with oral storytelling as a practice of ‘doing decolonial developme
	nt’. In our “Oral literature for Development”-project (Oral Literature f
	or Development’ (OL4D)) we reposition oral literature from object of stu
	dy to epistemological model. Rather than treating oral narratives as sec
	ondary cultural artifacts, we approach them as performative knowledge pr
	actices that articulate understandings of crisis situations – as these a
	re often resolved in the course of the narrative.</p><p>Our VLIRUOS Team
	 project brings together scholars from Kenya, Ethiopia and Belgium to de
	velop the OL4D approach as a method for (re-)connecting young people wit
	h living traditions of oral literature, particularly in contexts where f
	ormal education and technocratic development paradigms have marginalized
	 these forms.</p><p>Through theatre performances, community and school w
	orkshops, and collaborative analyses of genres in Gikuyu, Swahili, Digo,
	 and Oromo, we explore how performative learning enables youth to negoti
	ate gendered crisis, exclusion, poverty, disease, and ecological change 
	through historically grounded narrative frameworks from their own past.<
	/p><p>By building interinstitutional South–South–North partnerships and 
	co-developing educational tools, the OL4D project challenges dominant di
	sciplinary hierarchies and encourages oral epistemologies as an entry in
	to academia and development knowledge as generative sources of insight f
	or development and scholarly inquiry.</p><p>For more details: <a href='h
	ttps://events.la.psu.edu/event/afr-global-virtual-forum-brinkman-mossiss
	a-wasamba/'>https://events.la.psu.edu/event/afr-global-virtual-forum-bri
	nkman-mossissa-wasamba/</a></p></body></html>
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