User:Danjuma Anthony

TASHIKUM

Introduction to evening tales TASHIKUM: evening tales is part of our heritage. Mostly leisure entertainment stories coming from grandmothers/mothers to children. A circle sitting arrangement is formed, round a burning fire for warmness & it starts: Story Teller: Tashikuminiya Listeners: Tashinta Story Teller: Nzhiyang-ne Listeners: Nninnia ming awan

Warm up: Story Teller: Abu gundung-gundung Listeners: Liyen akam Story teller: ja ya dauka ja Listeners: Chi fiteh a kyak jwuok Story Teller: Culili ya dauka culili: Teller: a gashuwan kya kyak tswe chuwon Story Teller: Nsan nam niet min Zango, chunchunk nkwe ba Listeners: Nam

The first tale starts: Choice of tale to be narrated can be by the teller or requested by the listeners. Sometimes the listeners argue among themselves on the selection. In Shalio the main characters bear animals & that feature mostly are:

1. Kura (hyena) speaks in atyap intunation who always end up in trouble because of likeness & long throat for meat 2. Ashuwom (hare) speaks in Shalio intunation always putting kurah in trouble & dodging kurah's revenge (displays wisdom & can be likened to a lawyer) 3. Jhip, makarwa in hoausa ( some should he'll with English name pls) 4. Akha (monkey) 5. Kanjung (wasp)

I invite more inputs to build on my post. Proudly sholio