Moya Rainos Mutamba
By Ashleigh Gaul
Moyo Rainos Mutamba translates stories from his first language, Shona, into English. Almost exclusively, he tells the stories passed down to him by his mother, grandmother, and sister, all of whom were griots, or traditional storytellers. He says he tells stories out of a sense of obligation to pass on the stories of his ancestors and late relatives. He says he likes to tell stories, though, because it’s fun. “It feels nice on the palate of my soul,” he says. “It feels like ice cream on the hottest day of the Canadian summer.”
Listen to Mutamba’s untitled folk tale, performed at Sherehekea Africa, a Kiswahili festival organized by the University of Toronto on March 19th:
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Posted on March 23, 2011 by ashleighgaul