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SUMMARY:Ubuntu Translanguaging: Valuing Local Languages in Community Engaged Digital Storytelling with isiXhosa-Speaking Cape Flats Residents to Address Environmental Disaster Risks
DESCRIPTION:The Africa Indigenous Knowledge Research Network (AIKRN) and the Institute of African Studies at Carleton University invite you to join us for:



Ubuntu Translanguaging: Valuing Local Languages in Community Engaged Digital Storytelling with isiXhosa-Speaking Cape Flats Residents to Address Environmental Disaster Risks by Prof. Tsitsi Mpofu-Mketwa, School of Social Work, Carleton University



How can local languages deepen knowledge co-production and strengthen community resilience to environmental disasters?



Drawing on nine isiXhosa digital stories produced through participatory research methods—including community mapping, photovoice, and digital storytelling—this webinar explores how translanguaging expands knowledge beyond English-centered frameworks. Working with vulnerable Cape Flats communities affected by flooding, drought, and fire, the project highlights Ubuntu’s values of humanism and interdependency as foundations of resilience.



Professor Mpofu-Mketwa demonstrates how validating isiXhosa and other local meaning-making modes is central to decolonial research practice and enhances community-driven approaches to environmental disaster risk.Event link: https://carleton.ca/africanstudies/cu-events/ubuntu-translanguaging/
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