Meet Melisa Allela, Storyteller and Interactive Media Design Maven

Human beings are storytelling animals; this is how we make sense of the world. In a rapidly changing world, how do we leverage the capabilities of emerging technologies to preserve African oral traditions of storytelling? Infusion of Artificial Intelligence with immersive technologies such as Virtual Reality (VR), which enable social interaction between users and animated […]

Re-imagining the Traditional Forms of Storytelling in Africa

We communicate through stories, but also use stories to entertain, educate and inform. Presentation of events within a story can take the form of either of the three main types of narrative structures. The first is a linear narrative, in which events are presented in a chronological order and the user has no control over […]

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