Detail from 'The Storyteller' Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe is a wonderful example of the genius in African Storytelling. As I relished the culturally rich language such as, "... the market was so crowded, that if you threw a grain of sand it would never hit the ground" A few days after finishing the book I listened to a discussion led by a new Word Made Flesh board member, a Ugandan Catholic priest, and presently teaching at Duke. He discribed briefly how we live in and out of stories. Often these stories are unconscous yet they inform our descision, our sense of who we are, and become a basis for building our lives.
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