Videos
Why I Teach Enthusiasm | Joyce Ashuntantang | TEDxUniversityofHartford
Category : Public Speaking
Educators are always looking for ways to improve student learning in the classroom. After teaching for 19 years in various colleges and universities in the USA, Dr. Joyce Ashuntantang came to the conclusion that one of the most effective ways of maximizing students potential in and out of the classroom is to get them enthusiastic about the world around them. Enthusiasm is key to unlocking students’ abilities and sustaining them. Born in Cameroon, Central Africa, Dr. Joyce Ashuntantang is an Associate Professor of English at University of Hartford’s Hillyer College. Poet, actress, and fiction writer, she is the author of many scholarly and creative publications. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx
Dr. Joyce Ashuntantang in Action: When I Fall in Love I Talk About Buea
Category : Miscellaneous
Asoreh.
Category : Miscellaneous
Here is a video of Ashuntantang reading her poem, Asoreh. Ashuntantang is hoping that her work will help preserve disappearing Manyu crafts like the asoreh—and she also wants to use her poetry to help preserve Kenyang, one of the disappearing ethnic languages of Cameroon. While the official languages of Cameroon are English and French, the country has more than 200 ethnic languages, many of which are dying as those who know them pass away. During the “Hartford Loves Poetry” festival in April, Ashuntantang read two poems that she wrote in Kenyang. “I want to give back to the language. I want people to soak in the language, enjoy the words, enjoy the rhythm, feel it,” Ashuntantang said. “Language is a repository of the culture. If we lose that, we lose the culture as well.” See video of Ashuntantang reading poems in Kenyang at the “Hartford Loves Poetry” festival in April. (The readings start about four minutes into the video.)
Why Our Personal Stories Matter
Category : Miscellaneous
It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout.
Achebe’s insights on the African Diaspora and Baldwin’s comments at the 1980 ALA
Category : Miscellaneous
An Excerpt of more than an hour long interview with Chinua Achebe by Joyce Ashuntantang, Okey Ndibe, Sowore Omoyele and Oyiza Daba. Prompted by a question from Okey Ndibe, the Master Storyteller tells the story of the ALA conference of 1980 where he and James Baldwin where the keynote speakers. He uses Baldwin's comments on this occasion as a launching pad to give his insights on the importance of Africans and African Americans to be on the same page.
Hartford Loves Poetry Finale
Category : Miscellaneous
Ashuntantang is hoping that her work will help preserve disappearing Manyu crafts like the asoreh—and she also wants to use her poetry to help preserve Kenyang, one of the disappearing ethnic languages of Cameroon. While the official languages of Cameroon are English and French, the country has more than 200 ethnic languages, many of which are dying as those who know them pass away. During the “Hartford Loves Poetry” festival in April, Ashuntantang read two poems that she wrote in Kenyang. “I want to give back to the language. I want people to soak in the language, enjoy the words, enjoy the rhythm, feel it,” Ashuntantang said. “Language is a repository of the culture. If we lose that, we lose the culture as well.” See video of Ashuntantang reading poems in Kenyang at the “Hartford Loves Poetry” festival in April. (The readings start about four minutes into the video.) Cover picture: Ashuntantang displays Manyu crafts in front of a now rarely used mud kitchen in Ashum Village, Cameroon. The crafts belong to Abraham Ashusong, custodian of Manyu artifacts and folklore. The child with Ashuntantang is Ashusong's grandson. Photo by Tabi Zama of TGIM Cine School.
UHart Professor Speaks on Importance of Black History Month
Category : In the news
Joyce Ashuntantang, an associate professor of English in the University of Hartford's Hillyer College, talked to FoxCT about the importance of Black History Month.