One of the things that stories do is enhance our interconnectedness and help us understand the world better and try to remove that hermetically sealed mind space. Thinking about it, it’s quite possible to go through life believing that everything around you don’t exist and you create everything that is there because you live in your head. How do you then know that other people exist and feel what you feel? One way to see a different perspective of life other than yours is by communication, storytelling – Martin Egblewogbe

That we generally don’t spend hours petting domestic or farm animals or praising daffodils is only one measure of “distance.” However, when you turn to language, to the months or seasons for example, suddenly the attentiveness to nature is quite apparent. Don’t get me started on people’s names, ploughing practices or proverbs and idioms that rely entirely on an intimate understanding of and entanglement with nature. – Tjawangwa Dema