Mobile App's Creator Seeks to Preserve African Folktales

For centuries, Africans have preserved their history through storytelling. But communication is evolving rapidly as more and more Africans use smartphones. So Nigerian tech entrepreneur and fashion designer Elizabeth Kperrun decided to adapt African folktales to the 21st century by focusing on children’s stories that teach moral lessons. She created AfroTalez, a mobile application to preserve some of the stories told to her when she was a child sitting around the campfires at her home in...

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