This are blogs about African Children’s Stories Podcast.
Earlier this month, African Children’s Stories hosted a virtual read-aloud in commemoration of World Read Aloud Day, and I have not stopped thinking about it since. It takes me back to my childhood, when Goat Matata and Muddy Muddy Wedding storybooks were the talk of our classrooms. Every child in my class had copies of […]
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African children are hearing more stories than ever before, but not all of them are meant for them. In her article “The Role Played by Folklore in Raising Up an African Child”, Mdhululi, N.G. (2025) states that storytelling for children in Africa has evolved beyond entertainment into a powerful tool for learning, identity formation, and
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Early childhood development has a significant impact on future academic and economic development. (Mohammed S., et al. 2023). A study conducted in Ghana on reading, singing and storytelling explored the implications of caregiver-child interaction and child access to books and preschool on early childhood development. The paper argues that narrating stories to children improves their
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Digital storytelling is a transformative tool that enhances STEM engagement in grade K-12 education. This is because it merges creative expression with cognitive STEM concepts, breaking them down to relatable and simpler narratives (Ijiga O.M. et al). African Children’s Stories, a podcast produced by EduTab Africa, uses African narratives to enhance STEM education through familiar,
A Brief History of Magdalene’s Journey Magdalene Chorongo is one of the best children’s story narrators. She says that her voice is her power, identity and pride. In this blog, we delve deeper into this voice, a tool she has utilised over the past decade to transform education through storytelling. Magdalene Chorongo was born in
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Learning experiences in our schools have continued to evolve accommodating digital storytelling in classrooms as technology progresses in today’s world. Digital storytelling incorporates the use of recorded audio narrations, images, text or animations to pass information to learners. Digital storytelling can be used at all learning levels from early childhood to secondary and tertiary levels.
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