Comfort grew up in Nigeria, the daughter of a chief, and has learned and told folktales and songs ever since she learned to talk. She studied languages and drama and became a teacher at a time when it was very unpopular in Africa to send girls to school. She left her native land when authorities warned her against telling subversive stories to her students.
This former Nigerian school principal uses stories to teach children about social justice, exploring it through current events and through folk tales from numerous cultures.
Link | Storytellers of Canada
Books: | Kokodiko, the Dance Monster
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I have an urgent need to get in touch with Mme. Adesuwa Ero as we used to call her in my Lagelu Grammar School, Ibadan days. We celebrated the 50th Founder’s day of the school recently and she was given an award for her merritorious service to the school. I am one of those who benefited immensely from her most painstaking way of impacting knowledge in French and drama. We will forever be grateful. I need the contact please, so that I can arrange to deliver the award.
Posted 30 Apr 2008 at 12:34 pm ¶If you follow the link at the end of the post, “Storytellers of Canada”, you’ll find an email address, though I cannot tell if it’s a right one.
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