An Evening of Kwagh-Hir: Recreating the Tales by Moonlight

The Tiv people of Nigeria have a storytelling tradition called kwagh-alom, where a family gathers at the end of the day’s work, in the early hours of the night, to listen to stories and folktales by creative storytellers, mostly elders of the family. It is similar to what the Igbo people of Nigeria refer to […] The post An Evening of Kwagh-Hir: Recreating the Tales by Moonlight appeared first on The African Theatre Magazine.

An Evening of Kwagh-Hir: Recreating the Tales by Moonlight

The Tiv people of Nigeria have a storytelling tradition called kwagh-alom, where a family gathers at the end of the day’s work, in the early hours of the night, to listen to stories and folktales by creative storytellers, mostly elders of the family. It is similar to what the Igbo people of Nigeria refer to […]

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