“It is only the story ... that saves our
progeny from blundering like blind beggars into the spikes of the cactus fence.
The story is our escort; without it, we are blind. Does the blind man own his
escort? No, neither do we the story; rather, it is the story that owns us” –
Chinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savannah,
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Story telling goes back centuries; on the African continent, it is especially rich, as it is in the areas of the Black Diaspora, especially Haiti. Indeed, oral folklore - along with what has been recorded on paper (thinking of the likes of Leo Frobenius and Zora Neale Hurston) do have a way of guiding us, and uniting us, both within our ethnic groups and and among ethnic groups, as people of the world.
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