This is building from the African tradition of storytelling.

We've gotten a really great response.

It's about the power of stories. It's through our stories that we come to know each other and share our histories.

A necessary part of our intelligence is on the line as the oral tradition becomes less and less important. There was a time throughout our land when it was common for stories to be told and retold, a most valuable exercise, for the story retold is the story reexamined over and over again at different levels of intellectual and emotional growth.

These were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time. We never understood them until we were fully grown and they became our sole inheritance.

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.