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Love Brewed on the Shores of Nam Lolwe

Jan 2, 2019Grace WangariBlog#RusingaFest2018, Anne Eboso, Cultural Festivals in Kenya, Goethe Institut Nairobi, Rusinga Festival, Rusinga Island, Storytelling, Storytelling in Kenya, Wangari the storyteller

Silence. Total blackout. Even the moon disappears for a long minute. The barely visible faces in the crowd hold their breath. Suddenly, a loud scream comes from behind me. For a moment, my heart races faster. “Jowi! Jowi! Jowi!” a solitary voice calls in the darkness. The call is picked by the shadowy figures crouched

Storytelling Spaces in Kenya

Oct 12, 2018Grace WangariBlogCultural Festivals in Kenya, Storytelling, Storytelling in Kenya, Wangari Grace, Wangari the storyteller

Africa has a long tradition of practicing oral storytelling. Stories were told by grandparents and parents around the fireplace for different aims – entertainment, as a way of teaching genealogy, history of the community, to caution, advise among other reasons. There were also griots that were specialized in this art, whose trade was telling stories.

On the Cultural Trail to Rusinga Festival

Jan 3, 2018Grace Wangari1 CommentBlog#RusingaFest2017, Anne Eboso, Cultural Festivals in Kenya, Rusinga Festival, Rusinga Island, Storytelling in Kenya, Wangari the storyteller

She marched out of the lake, so they say. The myth of Nyamgondho With her back bent, wrinkles mapping her determined face, she raised her hand and the passive waters came alive. Hundreds of cows, goats, sheep, donkeys and all manner of domesticated fowl followed in her wake. The braying, moo-ing, baa-ing and clucking jolted

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Love Brewed on the Shores of Nam Lolwe

Storytelling Spaces in Kenya

On the Cultural Trail to Rusinga Festival