community storyteller

Londi Beketch Luyeye from the Democratic Republic of Congo was the Community Storyteller in Greater Pollok for a six month period.   As part of a project funded by Greater Pollok Integration Network, offered storytelling and awareness-raising sessions to community groups and upper primary and early secondary classes throughout the area.

Londi is well-known locally for his energetic involvement in community activities and for the storytelling and art work he has already done in schools.  His cartoons and illustrations have appeared in The Pollok Post and Village Storytelling Centre publications, Buffalo Horns, Village Stories and Doors Open

As Community Storyteller, Londi offered groups the chance to hear an African  story and a sample of traditional drumming, and to see some traditional African artefacts.  He also did some input on his work as a political cartoonist in Kinshasa and explained how this related to his own experience of escaping oppression and gaining refugee status in Scotland.  He concluded by giving a demonstration of cartoon drawing and inviting the group to try their hand at their own.