Africa’s legendary storyteller Gcina Mhlope will keep children educationally entertained for 15 days during the extended school break with a daily five-minute online story.
Private higher education Mancosa’s School of Education will again distribute children stories while schools remain closed until 15 February.
Last year Mancosa partnered with the Gcinamasiko Arts and Heritage Trust to get Mhlope, the world-renowned actress, playwright, storyteller and author, to keep children captivated with her iconic voice and knack of storytelling.
Professor Zaheer Hamid, academic director at Mancosa and head of the School of Education says audio recordings of the storytelling series will be available free of charge on Mancosa’s website from Monday 25 January to Friday 12 February.
The stories will also be available on Mancosa’s social media pages.
Hamid says said keeping children occupied during the lockdown could prove quite a challenge. “Lockdown must not only be about schoolwork for children.
“They also need time to set their minds free to imagine, dream and indulge in creativity.”
Mhlope chooses stories with an African theme that would deliberately expose children to a wide vocabulary and provide them with verbal and mental stimuli – something they would be missing since the closing of schools.
“I have specifically chosen stories that will take children’s minds somewhere else during these dark and gloomy days,” says Mhlophe.
Visit http://www.mancosa.co.za/ to find the available stories.
