Carter Family Marionettes & Ocheami

Sigi the Antelope

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The rich dancing and drumming traditions of West Africa are combined with puppetry at its inventive best to tell three timeless and charming African folktales. The Talking Yam describes what happens when inanimate objects come to life. In The Chicken and the Crocodile a very clever chicken saves himself from becoming a crocodile¹s lunch. And in Magotu and the Boogey Man audiences learn that "it is wise to give small dogs respect."