Storytelling

With many African cultures, storytelling is a means of passing cultural values, history and lessons from generation to generation, through folktales, fables, epic histories and proverbs. Stories help people make sense of the world and the environment. Mara Menzies will be telling three riveting stories.

African cultures use storytelling as a means of passing on social mores, family history from one generation to the next through folktales, myths and fables. Using his drums and folk music, Usifu Jalloh will tell us some traditional stories.