ABOUT US
ABOUT US
We offer storytelling services to schools, groups, and individuals
We offer storytelling services to schools, groups, and individuals
We are an African storytelling organization that provides live
and online
storytelling performances. We offer the very best services in our field. We never settle for second best, and always have your satisfaction as our top priority. It’s who we are, and we are proud of it.
Our Mission
To share the history and vibrant cultural diversity of Africa with the world, while helping to build structurally sound educational programs in The Motherland.
Our Vision
To help preserve and promote Africa's diverse cultural heritage, develop heritage-based educational programs, and strengthen indigenous cultural identity.
Our story
Our story
TOTM was founded by a mother and her children. In 2019, Mimi Cody and her two sons started a book club from their home where young children picked a book every week and spent time talking about it. Each book was carefully selected to provide geographic, historic, moral, or scientific meaning to the children. The book club required a minimal fee to participate (to cover the cost for snacks the children enjoyed after every session) and most importantly a donation made to an orphanage in the Republic of Congo.
With the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic, the book club could not operate as scheduled, so Mimi and her boys decided to bring the stories to the children instead, via YouTube. To avoid infringement on any potential copyrights, they decided to write the stories themselves, which turned out to be something they all enjoy. Storytelling became their way of life and TOTM was born.
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"The mystery of storytelling is the miracle of a single living seed which can populate whole acres of human minds."
-Ben Okri