Walk Good: African and Caribbean Folktales

By Kesha Christie

Walk Good with storyteller Kesha Christie brings African and Caribbean folktales to life with rhythm, heart, and a modern twist. Each biweekly episode features tricksters, heroes, ancestors, and timel... more

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The podcast currently has 115 episodes available.

Walk Good: African and Caribbean Folktales episodes:

April 19, 2023 Why Sun and Moon live in the Sky - African Folktale
Sun and moon were the best of friends who lived on earth, find our why Sun and moon live in the sky.

Story retold in this episode:
Why does Sun and Moon live in the Sky?
http://www.clonburrisns.ie/uploads/1/6/6/1/16617588/za-l-2-tales-from-africa-why-the-sun-and-moon-live-in-the-sky-story_ver_2.pdf

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7min
April 06, 2023 The Singing Pepper Bush- Vincentian Folktale
Have you ever wonder why there is misery in the world? This How and Why folktale gives us the answer
Story retold in this episode:
The Singing Pepper Bush
Tales from the Caribbean by Trish Cooke
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0141373089

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13min
March 15, 2023 Why Misery Remains in the World - Puerto Rican Folktale
Have you ever wonder why there is misery in the world? This How and Why folktale gives us the answer
Story retold in this episode:
Why Misery remains in the World
Greedy Mariani and Other Folktales of the Antilles Dorothy Sharp Carter
ISBN 10: 0689304250 ISBN 13: 9780689304255
Publisher: Atheneum, 1974
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8min
February 23, 2023 Tiger Soup - Jamaican Folktale
Are you ready for another Anancy story, find out what happens with Tiger and the soup.
Story retold in this episode:
Tiger Soup An Anansi Story from Jamaica
http://soupsong.com/stiger.html
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10min
January 19, 2023 The Monkey who asked for misery- Haitian Folktale
Have you every been told you ask for too much. Find out what happens when monkey asks to lots and lots of misery.
Story retold in this episode:
The monkey who asked for misery
https://www.longbranch.k12.nj.us/cms/lib/NJ01001766/Centricity/Domain/868/The-Monkey-Who-Asked-for-Misery.pdf
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8min
January 05, 2023 Uncle Bouki gets whee-ai - Haitian Folktale
Happy New Year!
Haiti celebrates it's independence on January 1st.
The story we share in this episode is a Bouki story, These stories have been told for as long as people can remember. They teach us how to live and how to behave. Bouki is a character that is very foolish or easily confused.
Story retold in this episode:
Uncle Bouki gets whee-ai
https://www.teachingforchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Haiti_Literature.pdf

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5min
December 28, 2022 The Three Tests- A Kwanzaa story - African Folktale
Happy Kwanzaa from December 26th to January 1, we celebrate the 7 principles of Kwanzaa:
UMOJA (Unity)
KUJICHAGULIA (Self-Determination):
UJIMA (Collective Work and Responsibility):
UJAMAA (Cooperative Economics)
NIA (Purpose)
KUUMBA (Creativity)
IMANI (Faith)
https://americanfolklore.net/folklore/2011/11/kwanzaa_stories.html
Each principle has a story and the story in this episode celebrates Kujichagulia
Story in this episode:
The three tests.
Resource: https://eshu.folktales.net/resources/kwanzaa/kujichagulia.html
Happy Holidays
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11min
December 22, 2022 The Best Gift of All - The Legend of La Vieja Belén - Dominican Republic Folktale
La Vieja Belén is very hardworking and is often too busy to sit with friends because she was always doing something. Until the day she is visited by 3 Kings...
Story in this episode:
The Best Gift of All - The Legend of La Vieja Belén
Resource: https://books.google.ca/books/about/Best_gift_of_all.html?id=j3VJAQAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y
Happy Holidays
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8min
December 14, 2022 Pig and Long Mout - Jamaican Folktale
Once upon a Christmas time, Anancy was up to his trickster ways...
Story in this episode:
Pig & Long Mout
Resource: Louise Bennett Anancy and Miss Lou, Page 5
Seasons Greetings
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10min
December 01, 2022 Magic Flight - Bajan/ Barbadian Folktale
In this episode we are sharing with you an Bajan/ Barbadian folktale. Barbados celebrates it's independence from British rule on November 30th. Barbados received it's independence on November 30, 1966.
Let's celebrate with story!!!
A boy and a giant play dice...
Story in this episode:
Magic Flight
Resource: The Journal of American Folklore Barbados Folklore - Vol. 38, No. 148 (Apr. - Jun., 1925), pp. 267-292 (26 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/535030?seq=9#metadata_info_tab_contents
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6min

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