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Like our economic and political worlds, stories too are defined by the principle of nkali: How they are told, who tells them, when they're told, how many stories are told, are really dependent on power.

This is not because I am a better person than that student, but because of America's cultural and economic power, I had many stories of America.

All of these stories make me who I am.

But to insist on only these negative stories is to flatten my experience and to overlook the many other stories that formed me.

But there are other stories that are not about catastrophe, and it is very important, it is just as important, to talk about them.

I've always felt that it is impossible to engage properly with a place or a person without engaging with all of the stories of that place and that person.

What if we had an African television network that broadcast diverse African stories all over the world?

What the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe calls "a balance of stories."

Now, what if my roommate knew about my friend Funmi Iyanda, a fearless woman who hosts a TV show in Lagos, and is determined to tell the stories that we prefer to forget?

I teach writing workshops in Lagos every summer, and it is amazing to me how many people apply, how many people are eager to write, to tell stories.

My Nigerian publisher and I have just started a non-profit called Farafina Trust, and we have big dreams of building libraries and refurbishing libraries that already exist and providing books for state schools that don't have anything in their libraries, and also of organizing lots and lots of workshops, in reading and writing, for all the people who are eager to tell our many stories.

Stories matter.

Many stories matter.

Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize.

Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.

But reality is much more fluid, and good and bad are often incomplete stories that we tell ourselves.

In these stories, robots often think that they're human, and they sort of come to life.

The joy is about enabling other people's stories to be heard at the same time.

You have the stories of the individuals in the orchestra and in the audience.

And then you have other stories, unseen.

And all those stories are being heard at the same time.

So art matters to me on a personal level, and not only because it's beautiful and inspiring and thrilling, but because art tells powerful stories.

All these artists have stories to tell you about what it means to be African, stories that tell you and touches about our African identity, but also stories that tell us about who we are as Africans, but also stories that tell us about our complex history.

So how can art tell you powerful stories?

And Rumi's stories are metaphors for the spiritual path.

There are three stories that I think are quite good examples.

Culture is a reaction to nature, and this understanding of our ancestors is transmitted generation from generation in the form of stories, symbols and rituals, which are always indifferent to rationality.

But these are not the stories that the gymnosophist heard.

So, I tried to work on the standard model of culture, which is, develop stories, symbols and rituals.

In other words, all sorts of communication devices are telling us the stories of countries, whether or not the countries concerned want people to hear those stories.

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