African Storytelling and Images in Teaching: Youth and Crisis Management through Folktales and Visuals from Kenya and Ethiopia

As a team of upcoming and established scholars from Kenya, Ethiopia and Belgium, we propose this book with oral folktales accompanied by strong visuals. Through performative learning procedures the book invites young people to meaningfully engage with living traditions of oral storytelling. The book aims to:

1) (re-)value the educational potential of popular storytelling in dealing with crisis situations;

2) (re)connect adolescent audiences with oral literatures;

As the interest in oral lit...