Africa’s Cowfoot!!! Education within your cultural context
The Africa’s Cowfoot!!! show has been created and produced by Usifu Jalloh. Having done a tremendously successful tour in the UK, this electrifying and engaging storytelling show provides a platform for expressing African Oral Heritage on a literary stage while promoting education and culture. With a mix of drumming, singing and a captivating narrative style Usifu takes the audience through the magic and nostalgia of childhood emotions using contemporary elements that have influenced his life. Africa’s Cowfoot!!! debuts in Freetown at the British Council, Tower Hill on the 10th and 11th December 2013. This is a unique event collaborating with The 50/50 Group, AdvocAid, Sierra Gem Media and Key Recruitment. The show will include iconic performers like Bassi Kondi, Wan Man Geng and Amy Kallon. The contemporary artists include Nasser Ayoub, Fantacee and Gwyn. This show promises to be exciting, educational and inspiring.
Tickets for the event are now available in Freetown. Please call 078421062, 078043898, 076655966, 078244101.
The show starts at 7:30pm prompt.
The Director and producer, Usifu Jalloh was born in Kamakwie, Sierra Leone. Usifu is an energetic, funny, and deeply inspiring storytelling performer. Sierra Leone’s Excellence Award winner in Creative Arts, United Artists Award winner for Contribution to Promoting Sierra Leone culture 2012 and Bristol’s 2012 Storytelling Grand Slam Award winner, A keynote speaker at various UK Universities and often quoted in a variety of genre and publications including authors such as Frank Wynne 2006. He has co-written and co-published an epic play ‘Sweet Peter’ representing the experience of slavery, colonialism and war in Sierra Leone. Jalloh has starred in two short films about refugees, including the award-winning Journey Man and Reel Lives Sierra Leone an educational DVD on traditional practices in Sierra Leone for schools. He has worked extensively leading Storytelling, African drumming and dance workshops throughout the educational, entertainment and corporate sector in the United Kingdom and across Europe, the Middle East and India.
Usifu Jalloh has a passion and a dream to revive and promote Oral Tradition within the education and academic sector in Sierra Leone. He is Chairman of the Aruna Jalloh Foundation through which he established Maambena Fest one of the biggest and most successful cultural and literacy festival in Sierra Leone. The festival has been attracting an audience of up to 3000 in Kamakwie for the past three years. Through his inspiration the Kamakwie community library was built and established in April 2012.
“I believe in being educated within the context of one’s culture” Usifu Jalloh.
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