I have had four sessions so far, one performance and three workshops. The Swahili spoken in Tanzania, and which is what the students are being taught, is quite different from our regular Kenyan Swahili tongue. Although I am a pretty decent Swahili speaker, this will kept me on my feet. Kuja? No, Njoo! Sunday 10th
When you take the 8:00pm Sirare bound Transline bus from Nairobi’s Afya Centre, it will deposit you at the Sirare/Isibania office at around 4:20am the next morning. You may decide that since you are the stranger in Jerusalem, you will wait for the morning light. So you wrap yourself with the maasai shuka you had
Welcome to my blog! The world is not made of atoms, it is made of stories. I cannot remember where I heard those words but they made an impression. People often look confused when I tell them that I am a storyteller. “What do you mean? Like you just tell stories?” Storytelling is an
Building Bridges through Performance Storytelling – #SiganaFest2016
“We need to build more bridges and less fences”. This was an observation by one of the hundreds of children who had turned up for the storytelling session at the Kenya National Library Services (KNLS), Nakuru Branch. Storytellers Roger Jenkins (Singapore) and John Titi (Kenya) had just shared a story in tandem. The tale was
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