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The Sigana International Storytelling Festival (SISFest) 2025, themed "Threads of Heritage: Weaving Stories, Bridging Generations," will take place from June 29 – July 1, 2025, across Nairobi's key cultural venues—Kenya National Library Services, Cheche Bookshop & Café, and Alliance Française. Since its inception in 2009, SISFest has been a vibrant platform uniting storytellers from across the world, fostering professional exchange, cultural celebration, and audience engagement. This year’s festival will feature immersive workshops, panel discussions, performances, and interactive storytelling experiences, including an opening night in collaboration with Mboka Festival from The Gambia, discussions on Kenyan comics, intergenerational storytelling, and climate futures, and special performances highlighting East African and Somali heritage. With a mix of traditional and contemporary storytelling, SISFest 2025 promises to be a dynamic celebration of storytelling as a bridge across generations and cultures.#Sigana2025 #ThreadsOfHeritage #StorytellingMagic #WeavingGenerations #JoinTheJourney

Oral Folklore and Climate Change

John Titi is currently engaged in ongoing active research that seeks to understand the nexus between traditional folklore knowledge systems and mitigation of climate change realities. The focus is on communities living within the expansive arid and semi-arid lands (ASAL) across Eastern Africa region. Oral folklore rituals, practices, interpretations and analysis as they relate with the current phenomena of environmental and climate change are interesting starting points the research will cover.

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