Storyteller's chance discovery inspires show blending family history with African folklore and music – Yahoo News UK

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The Gods Are Here will be performed in Derby Theatre on October 27 and 28 and at Doe Lea Resource Centre, near Chesterfield on November 25, 2023.

Frst-class storyteller Phil Okewedy takes centre stage in this presentation which explores freedom, racism, family and growing up without your birth parents.

The production weaves myth, song, folktales and legends of Africa with Phil’s personal story of being a child in Wales during the Sixties and Seventies. His show was inspired by finding letters in an attic written from his father in Nigeria…