Once Upon a Problem

The Stoop

Hana Baba and Leila Day

Identity, International, Thestoop, Blackness, Storytelling, African, Personal Journals, Africanamerican, Blackidentity, Blackart, Journalism, Society & Culture, Black, Diaspora, Blackculture

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🗓️ 26 January 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Hana’s writing a book of Sudanese folktales that have been handed down through generations in her family, but some questions have been haunting her. Should they be translated? Does she even own the right to retell these stories? And the biggest question of them all- a secret within the stories that she must confront.
To guide her, she talks it out with African American storyteller Diane Ferlatte, and Rwandan folklore scholar Brenda Umutoniwase- plus Hana gets honest with her Aunt Sohair..

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0:00.0	كان يما كان في غديمة الزمان
0:03.8	مسالف العصر والأوان
0:06.8	قالوا كان في بيده يؤخوها
0:12.0	هنه؟
0:13.0	هل ليلة؟
0:14.6	سو ليلة؟
0:16.2	هذا هو my auntie
0:17.5	her name is Suhir
0:19.0	واذ she's saying?
0:20.7	She's telling a folk story
0:23.7	it's a story about a girl named Fatma
0:27.2	and her brother Hassan
0:29.0	هم حسن يهز الشرق بطاع والطير
0:33.4	وانده حسن was out hunting for food
0:37.7	and he caught a big bird for dinner
0:42.3	but the bird was actually a king who was cursed by a witch
0:48.0	then the bird cries out to his daughter to rescue him
0:59.5	هنه؟
0:59.8	I know how you love these Sudanese folk tales
1:02.8	yeah
1:03.6	I mean
1:04.3	ليلة
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