#MeetTheStoryteller Episode 6 Storyteller: Mshai Mwangola From: Kenya **** **** **** Karibu sana Mshai. Please describe your kind of performance. As a performance scholar, I understand “performance” to be a way of making meaning, a path of exploration into knowing. My kind of performance is characterised by three things: it emphasises the potential of the
Meet The Storyteller: Episode 2 Storyteller: Githanda Githae From: Kenya ***** Whats your story? I am Teacher, Oral Storyteller, Performer and Writer. I am also the pioneer of creating storytelling programs in Independent schools as a way to foster our culture and heritage. I have been telling stories for over a decade. I do solo
#ButiamaChronicles The Grand Finale Let me tell you of my very first stage experience. I had been cast to play Aunt Kezia in the play Aminata by Francis Imbuga. Looking back, it was kind of a complex role. A conservative woman, Aunt Kezia could not wrap her head around the fact that a man, her
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
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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