Mswaki - how to make the African Toothstick
From: Paula Kahumbu
Series: AFRICA'S WILDEST STORIES
Length: 04:52
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"Africa’s Wildest Stories" is a community project that attempts to stem the loss by enabling ordinary people to share extraordinary experiences with current and unborn generations. It is an archive of true wildlife stories told by people who live or have lived in Africa. The intention of these stories is that the create relatedness across generations, cultures, races and even between species. These real life stories will create delight in Africa’s spectacular wildlife heritage inspire you to take action save elephants, lions, mountains, whale sharks and beetles.
This project will not only safeguard these memories in the form of audio and visual stories, but makes them available to anyone anywhere exactly the way they were originally told. If we fail to record our history from those alive today, we will lose important lessons from the past, we may never value what is left, and we will lose our extraordinary wildlife heritage without even knowing it.
The online archive make the stories available on demand for anyone anywhere and we hope you will purchase these stories to enable us to make the project available across Africa so that anyone anywhere to contribute to the project.
This project was started in June 2012 and is still working on getting it right. You can help us. We would love to hear your views and suggestions. If you would like to participate or contribute please leave me a message.
Kind Regards
Paula Kahumbu
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"Africa’s Wildest Stories" is a community project that attempts to stem the loss by enabling ordinary people to share extraordinary experiences with current and unborn generations. It is an archive of true wildlife stories told by people who live or have lived in Africa. The intention of these stories is that the create relatedness across generations, cultures, races and even between species. These real life stories will create delight in Africa’s spectacular wildlife heritage inspire you to take action save elephants, lions, mountains, whale sharks and beetles.
This project will not only safeguard these memories in the form of audio and visual stories, but makes them available to anyone anywhere exactly the way they were originally told. If we fail to record our history from those alive today, we will lose important lessons from the past, we may never value what is left, and we will lose our extraordinary wildlife heritage without even knowing it.
The online archive make the stories available on demand for anyone anywhere and we hope you will purchase these stories to enable us to make the project available across Africa so that anyone anywhere to contribute to the project.
This project was started in June 2012 and is still working on getting it right. You can help us. We would love to hear your views and suggestions. If you would like to participate or contribute please leave me a message.
Kind Regards
Paula Kahumbu
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