The Lion, the Pig and the Cunning Rabbit and Other Animal Stories - Softcover

Forster, Retty

 
9781524683474: The Lion, the Pig and the Cunning Rabbit and Other Animal Stories
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1524683477 ISBN 13: 9781524683474
Verlag: AuthorHouseUK, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

These are seven stories based on the folklore of Sierra Leone. The Cunning Rabbit is the Anansi in that tradition. When stories are told in Sierra Leone folklore, the storyteller starts by saying ill, meaning that something has gone wrong. The listeners respond by asking how. Then the story unfolds to explain what went ill.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Born in Cambridge in England of parents from Sierra Leone in West Africa, Retty was educated both in Freetown and in London. She taught English at the Freetown Secondary School for girls before joining the staff of the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Service as a junior producer. She trained as a Radio Journalist at the All Africa Conference of Churches Communications Training Centre in Nairobi, Kenya and on her return to Freetown was promoted to Producer. During twenty years with the SLBS she worked on a variety of programs as diverse as Playtime for the very young, Mainly for women and Features and Documentaries, as well as being a reporter in the newsroom and doing extensive outside broadcasts on important state occasions. She also did some TV work as presenter of the flagship childrens and youth programs, as well as continuity announcing. When the political tide started to turn in Freetown, Retty returned to London as a single mother of two sons. While trying to rebuild her new life in The UK, Retty spent the next few years as a stay at home mum. She continued writing plays, short stories and poetry, doing story telling in schools and libraries as well as public performances of her work on stage. Retty is descended directly from slavery. Her maternal great grandparents were born in bondage in Washington, USA and repatriated to West Africa as freed slaves. Her paternal ancestors were also once slaves in the USA.

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Verlag
AuthorHouseUK
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1524683477
ISBN 13 
9781524683474
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
26
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