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Giving a Voice to Our Stories

18th October 2024 · Generational stories are more than just entertainment, they hold deep cultural significance, teach values, and reflect the worldviews of the storytellers. In the ongoing effort to honour and share these stories with the world, I'm excited to announce the addition of audio storytelling to the Sub-Saharan Stories platform.

Weekly Stories in Your Inbox

25th September 2024 · Announcing the launch of Sunday Stories, a new weekly email series that sends three completely random stories from our website right into the inboxes of our subscribers.

Embracing Web Accessibility

17th September 2024 · For a website dedicated to African folktales, embracing web accessibility standards is crucial in making these rich cultural narratives available to as many people as possible. But what exactly are web accessibility standards, and why should they matter to us?

Renditions of Truth: A Thought on AI

16th May 2024 · Determining accountability is a difficult but necessary task for any just and truth-oriented society.

A Hand Against the Tide: Why This Exists

3rd May 2024 · For as long as humans have existed, storytelling has been the primary way we communicate ideas, fables, histories, truths, lies and everything in-between. More than just communication and knowledge transfer, storytelling is the backbone of cultural identity and helps to build bonds between people of similar geographic regions, and extends a culture’s influence far beyond the limited reaches of its original tellers.

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