6.3. Literature Review 8

6.3. Literature Review 8

Mediums, The desire for new.

There are very few forms of inclusion that are as socially effective as discussion. Discussion is the opportunity to be heard and speak that give value to interactions. When a person is allowed to teach, they value the people they teach and who allow/request their teaching. When a person is held responsible for listening, they are taught that the people around them have value as much value as they have. This manifestation of Ubuntu, ‘to be a person’, in which the members of a family, group, or community participate in its formation, continuation, and evolution, solidifying social ties. Through the voice, members of the group attain wisdom and are taught of their significance. (Where the voice medium is not available, the teaching is through a mediator and translated for those disabled people.) The social norm of discussion applies to all forms of African ritual or social interaction. No matter who one is, one has the social obligation to do both speaking and listening, which is how the community maintains itself. If one ever finds oneself located in or close in the cabals of educated young Africans as they discuss the people, nation, and world, then these cabals often form in urban city spaces and have part of their legacy in the traditions that exist in African community partitioning. The most repeating forms of social interactions are questions on who has written the book, where the author is from, and where the speakers can find it. There is a movement where the black African no longer wants to read westernised publications on the world and its histories and instead has a thirst for literature from Africans. Due to the scarcity of African content on the everyday digital platforms (a case for cultural exclusion in these platforms can be argued), word of mouth plays a much more significant role in spreading such texts when compared to digital searches. Thus, there exists the requirement of fusion between the informality of oral teaching and the structure of written literature. This state of fusion means that as this knowledge is being brought into focus by those it serves – the young and old digital members. There might be a movement from purely written translation to the recording of voice through the now-available digital methods that have become more common. This fusion is challenging to achieve. However, the privileged South African has arrived in an era of digital convenience where they can easily record and download information in its primary witnessed form. The question then is not which of the two primary education mediums (oral and written) are preferred, but what medium will be used to carry information in the first place. If the privileged South African can record everything as it happens through the lens of a smartphone, why separate the recording onto a transportation medium in the first place.