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When storytelling wisdom gets reduced to extractable lessons

I tried to explain the concept of ubuntu through a funny story about my neighbors in Botswana but people kept asking what the 'real point' was like the story itself wasn't enough.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The holistic way your culture embeds meaning in narrative is being dissected by people who need explicit moral conclusions.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with African comedy traditions?”

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