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Education as Change https://doi.org/10.25159/1947-9417/8788

https://upjournals.co.za/index.php/EAC ISSN 1947-9417 (Online)

Volume 24 | 2020 | #8788 | 1 page © The Author(s) 2020

Published by the University of Johannesburg and Unisa Press. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)

Decolonised Tongue

Flow Wellington [email protected]

Open your mouth, w i d e…

Wider than the rounded constraints of a stolen language

you try so hard to master.

Allow your tongue to time travel;

They say it cannot forget the language of your Abogan1.

Open your mouth,

w i d e r…

Feel the clicks and echoes return and rise from your belly.

Remember! Remember when your gowab2 was yours and didn’t need

colonial justification.

Vai-oa3!

Yours is the task of untangling twisted tongues from censored silence—

Vkhībagus sa cgaob tsî vais4

so the stories of old are forever told with your mouth wide open.

KhoeKhoe Translations Provided by Flow Wellington 1. Abogan: Ancestors

2. gowab: language 3. Vai-oa: Remember

4. Vkhībagus sa cgaob tsî vais: Reconcile your heart and mind

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