Technauriture as an Educational Tool in South Africa

Abstract

This article seeks to situate the importance of orality in southern African communities within the paradigm of Technauriture, that being the intersection of technology, auriture and literature and how it relates to imparting educational messages within South Africa in particular. The process of orality as allowed for through, for example oral histories, music, poetry and story-telling, and how it interacts with the recording process facilitated through modern technology, as well as the return of the oral material via technology in educational and archival circles is further explored in this article. The question which this article seeks to understand is how technology can contribute in the educational milieu. Furthermore, orality still proliferates in South Africa and it is used for both documentation and dissemination of information in an educational and archival manner. This process is explored further in relation to contemporary forms of isiXhosa oral literature or Technauriture.