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Stories are not the answer but they can shape our imagination towards the answer...

Stories are not the answer but they can shape our imagination towards the answer...

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Hosted by Alison Buckler and produced by Motunrayo Oladeji and Jennifer Agbaire, this episode of Talking Story with Ibali features Baeletsi Tsatsi, a South Africa-based storyteller, facilitator and writer. Baeletsi’s stories are distributed by FunDza, Cover2Cover and Book Dash.  In 2020, she was a storyteller in residence at Play Africa's African Storytelling Project, happening in collaboration with ASSITEJ SA. In 2021 she worked with Nal'ibaliand Cadbury to ensure that children feel the generosity of stories. The stories, including an Africanized classic and a Christmas story can be found on the Cadbury website. Her recent storytelling work includes co-hosting the Creative Duets performance, a creative exchange between Welsh and Sub-Saharan Africa Storytellers birthed by Beyond the Border. Her latest nonfiction writing can be found in Anxious Joburg - The Inner Lives of a Global South City. She is currently a Head Storyteller and Curator at Story and Breath, a storytelling company that tells stories that entertain, educate and enlighten.  Among other things on this episode, Baeletsi talks about the power of storytelling to support a problem-solving perspective and the need to develop a language to better articulate the benefits of story work.  

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