An allegory for Africa, this colourful tale was inspired by a passage in a Ben Okri novel.
A hunter finds himself in a beautiful forest where he meets the enchanting Starbird. She naively embraces him but he traps her under a net and steals her children taking them to far away lands. But one little star baby is able to hide and tries to help free her mother from the weight of what is holding her down. How can she possibly succeed? There is only one way!
Where it all began.
‘Mara Menzies couldn’t find books with any of the stories of her Kenyan heritage she wanted to tell her daughter – so she wrote and published her own.’ The start of my storytelling journey.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07mj367
Part of the MADE IN SCOTLAND SHOWCASE 2019
Ancient mythology and performance storytelling collide in a contemporary exploration of the legacy of colonialism and slavery by award winning Scottish Kenyan storyteller Mara Menzies.
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