What Does It Mean To Be Articulate?

Jamila Lyiscott


Jamila Lyiscott is a scholar, a teacher, an artist and a “tri-tongued orator”. In “3 ways to speak English”, a spoken-word piece performed for TED Talks, she breaks down what it means to multilingual as a woman of the diaspora. Her moving piece goes beyond a simple code switch. She shows us (and I mean all of us), how deeply entrenched in history our words truly are.