YOUTH PROGRAMME | 8 EPISODES | 2021 – 2024

A piece of wood, even if left in the water for a long time, will never become a caiman.

In this selection of eight tales, taken from the three seasons of Africa Through Tales recorded in Ivory Coast anger is a bad advisor, from the mouse that you should never trust a boa, no matter how convincing, and from the king of the bush that a rat and a spider can teach you a cruel lesson.

Gathered by librarians from the Abidjan-based association Des livres pour tous, and produced by Making Waves, these West African tales also provide answers to questions you’ve no doubt often asked yourself: why do the hare’s ears stand on end? Or why does the woodpecker keep banging its beak against the tree trunk?

Apologues to help you cope with tricky situations, life experiences poured into the common pot, these stories for all audiences invite you, in turn, to pass them on.

Africa Through Tales is a project created by the Ivorian NGO Des livres pour Tous and Making Waves. For three years, it is supported by the Accès Culture program of the Agence Française de Développement and the Institut français..

The team : Sonia Arruda-Touré, Eugène Konan, Flore Kra, Laure Egoroff, Tidiane Thiang, Valérie Gobey, Romain Masson, Marguerite Abouet et Elvis Tanoh.

And the storytellers, actors and actresses: Rebecca Kompaoré, Binda Ngazolo, Koami Vignon, Flopy Mendosa, Jean-Marc Kouasi Kouadio, Reine Léticia Azi, Charles Kohoury and Vincent de Paul Kouamé.

And find out more about the three seasons of Africa Through Tales on Radio France Internationale (RFI) !

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