Our style of storytelling is built upon work done by @ogutumuraya and @MuthoniGarland (of @Storymoja) at the beginning of the decade.

They were working with stories from "Living Memories", a book by @alkags.

https://storymojaafrica.wordpress.com/2012/04/30/living-memories/ https://twitter.com/aleyakassam/status/1027856236899979265
We were very taken by Ogutu's take on Said Ongwen Olaga (who served Elizabeth phlegm during her stay at Tree Tops before becoming the queen of Britain) & Hussein Warutere (who suffered 13 years of hard labour in prison for using a Whites Only toilet in apartheid colonial Kenya.
These performances happened on Sunday, July 22, 2012, and Sunday, June 16, 2013, on two storytelling shows: #TalesandStories & #TalesandStoriesII by @ArtsandOak.

The lead performers were @ogutumuraya and @ewamboye.
The line up included @AbuSense_ and (performing under the group @SiNiSisi) @AVoodooChile, @bzartony and Ngartia of @Storyzetu.
Bonus:

1, 2 & 3: @ogutumuraya and @ewamboye in that duet storytelling style that Abu and Ngartia would embody years later in our first edition.

4: @WanjikuMwavu hanging with Ogutu after one of the Tales & Stories show.
On this show at the @VillageMarket food court, organized by @Artsandoak, Ngartia tested out one of the stories that would be on the show.

The lessons from that informed the @KwaniOpenMic performance of the Muthoni Nyanjiru story (with @AbuSense_ and @_Njagi_).
And of course, lessons from the @KwaniOpenMic gig would lead to the first edition of #TooEarlyForBirds.

And the rest, as they say, ladies, gentlemen and non-binary folk, ni form kujipa.
Speaking of which, these should be paintings.
You know what?

We have time...

Mention anyone in the Kenyan art scene and we will find how they have contributed to the existence of #TEFB.
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