What is Shona? Investigating a Language
This presentation is part philosophical musings, part critical reflections, a tracking and tracing of how a mega colonial language that did not exist before 1929 was created over 90 years ago to subdue various groups of people in the territory that is now Zimbabwe. What is the Shona linguistic experiment that resulted in the creation of one of the two major languages that have been used as an identifier of Zimbabweanness from the early 20th century onwards?
Dr. Tinashe Mushakavanhu is a Junior Research Fellow in African and Comparative Literature at OCCT, St Anne’s College, Oxford.
For more information, please see the events page (www.occt.ox.ac.uk/discussion-group-what-shona-investigating-language) or email Erin Nickalls (erin.nickalls@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk).
Date:
24 January 2022, 12:45 (Monday, 2nd week, Hilary 2022)
Venue:
Seminar Room 10, St Anne's College
Speaker:
Dr Tinashe Mushakavanhu (St Anne’s College, Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
erin.nickalls@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk
Part of:
Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Katy Terry
