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Quiz
Think you know African mythology? Match each being to their legend and prove your knowledge.
Listen to Sesi and Haleemah discuss the extent to which culture should be preserved.
A retelling of the 'Queen Moremi' folktale about a legendary Yoruba queen.
The events in this folktale led to a new custom in Uganda in the old days; but now there is a new law, and no one may go to a witchdoctor at all, and if the police find a man telling fortunes they take him to prison. But still some people are naive enough to go in secret, and have their fortunes told, even though they know this story.
An entertaining fiction piece about masquerades.
