The Girl & the Sunbird: An African Folktale

This session was part of our Mindful Creativity for Resilience: A Virtual Self-Care Retreat.
Listen to the African folktale, “The Girl & The Sunbird,” a story about finding your inner voice and the song in your heart in the face of adversity. Told and sung by storyteller and scholar, Wakanyi Hoffman, who will also share the Ubuntu philosophy of human oneness and how it applies to African oral storytelling as a worldview.
About the presenter:
Wakanyi Hoffman, MA, is a storyteller and scholar of African indigenous wisdom and knowledge. She teaches children how to find their inner stories using folktales from Africa that are embedded in the Ubuntu philosophy of human oneness. She is the debut author of Sala, Mountain Warrior, a children’s book released in 2023 that touches on the theme of wisdom keeping and girls’ empowerment. Wakanyi has an MA in Global Education from University College London, and she is currently a research fellow at The New Institute Hamburg where she conducts research on indigenous knowledge systems for a sustainable, collective future. Wakanyi is also a co-founder of Bokobokids, a platform for African storytellers using ancient wisdom and knowledge to foster inner well-being in children of all ages.