Lisa Grainger

Stories Gogo Told Me (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

There is a storyteller in almost every village in Africa. Telling stories is not her offi cial job. By day she may be a Gogo, a teacher, a farmer or a seamstress. But at night, round the fi re, she will sit surrounded by young children, old friends, neighbours and travellers. She will tell of how it was in the olden days, when the earth was young, when man was a hunter-gatherer, and when the animals roamed wild throughout the continent. The author spent several months hiking around the villages, towns, farms and deserts of Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana and South Africa, asking people who can't read or write to tell her their favourite stories. The result is this children's treasury of legends and fables, of witchdoctors and kingdoms of strange creatures and talking animals, which celebrates Africa and its ancient storytelling culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Altersempfehlung: ab 8 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781432306199
• Artikelnr.: 43668186

Autorenporträt

Lisa Grainger was born in Harare, Zimbabwe, in 1964, and studied journalism at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, before embarking on her career at The Star in Johannesburg. She has lived in London for the past twenty years, working as a full-time journalist and editor for The Times and The Sunday Times, and as the features director for Elle. Having left full-time employment to write this book, she now freelances as a writer from London.