In My Tongue

In my tongue is a multilingual interactive documentary that investigates different languages and the relationships people have with the languages they speak.

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A series of interviews were conducted from January to April 2021 with nine people from Canada and Kenya in several languages including Bemba, English, French, Kikuyu, Lingala, Meru and Swahili.

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The project leads are Candide and Trish, OCAD U Digital Futures graduate students who conducted and participated in the interviews. Candide is a Canadian of Congolese descent and Trish is a Kenyan. 

  

The participants of the project are all multilingual and English speakers. Candide interviewed four Canadian participants: Lumenganu and Gabrièla, who are of Congolese descent; Wanda, who is of Polish and Nicaraguan descent; and Z, who is of Congolese and Zambian descent. Trish interviewed three participants; Mwenda, Roy, and Salome, all of whom are Kenyan.        

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The series of audio snippets explores the many layers, nuances, and politics that reside within and between languages.

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We invite visitors to leave voice and/or written responses to the segments that speak to them the most.