African Storytelling

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African Storytelling

• At ForeMedia GROUP

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About Storytelling

• Storytelling is a technique for capturing and
  conveying one's emotions, attitudes, and
  reactions to one's life events and surroundings
  (Gbadegesin, 1984). Ngugi wa Thiong'o (1982),
  Asante (1987), Kouyate (1989), Alidou (2002), and
  Chinyowa (2004) identified storytelling function
  as mediating and transmitting knowledge and
  information across generations, conveying
  information to younger generations about culture,
  worldviews, morals and expectations, norms and
  values.

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What is Black Storytelling?

• African storytelling uniqueness, African
  storytelling as a communal participatory
  experience, African storytelling style and
  structure, the power of African stories, the
  moral lessons behind African stories, the
  pedagogical significance of African storytelling,
  the use of cultural proverbs and parables in
  African storytelling, African traditional
  knowledge, cosmologies and epistemologies in
  African storytelling, and finally indigenous
  paradigms and the decolonization of African
  storytelling

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African Concept of Ubuntu

• "I am what I am because of you," Ubuntu says. The
  entire theme is around humans or humanity
  (Mandela 1994, Carson 1998). These stories
  explain scientific events, teach morality, give
  African people a feeling of self-identity, and
  are both amusing and educational. Because they
  feature an animal trickster with human habits,
  beliefs, and weaknesses, animal trickster stories
  are the most popular among folktales. Moral
  ideals are instilled in the people of the tribe
  or community through these stories (Ngugi wa
  Thiong'o 1982, Mandela 2002).

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Characteristics of African Storytelling

• In most traditional African civilizations,
  African Storytelling is done both formally and
  informally as an interactive oral performance.
  Basic instruction in a particular culture's oral
  arts and talents is a vital aspect of children's
  traditional indigenous education on their route
  to initiation into full humanness (Achebe 1958,
  Ngugi wa Thiong'o 1965, Sheppard 2009). After
  years of communal-traditional training, most
  accomplished storytellers in many of these
  African cultures are respected community members
  who have mastered many complex verbal use of
  proverbs and parables, musical, and memory skills
  (Achebe 1958, Mungoshi 1975, Chavunduka 1988,
  Chinyowa 2000, Vambe 2001).

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Contact

• Project ForeMedia Group
• Location United States
• Website https//foremediagroup.com
• Email Id info_at_foremediagroup.com
• Contact No. 44 208 158 5552

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