Listening to the Sonorous: Digital Archiving as a Political Practice

Abstract

“Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity,” says Chimamanda Adichie, a Nigerian author, in her famous TED talk on “The Danger of a Single Story” (2009). She argues that a singular narrative can have dangerous consequences, and expresses her initial wonderment that people of colour could “exist in literature”.