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RECALLING OUR STORIES

Recalling Our Forgotten Stories: Africa’s Oral Tradition

by Damola Oluwemimo  Oral tradition, or oral lore, is a form of human communication wherein knowledge, art, ideas, and cultural material is received, preserved, and transmitted orally from one generation to another. This is done mainly through speeches or songs that include folktales, ballads, chants/praises, prose, and even verses. This made it possible for a …

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TVO POETRY SLAM UPDATE

We came out of the sea,
The sun adorning our skin,
We rose above its tide,
We took it for our ride…..and thus continued the magic that was birthed at our poetry slam!