Bead Bai

A book about story telling and the storyteller, art and the artist. Writer: Sultan Somjee

Mar 9, 2013

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Sakina is an embroidery artist growing up in the shanty town of Indian Nairobi, a railroad settlement in British East Africa in the early 1900s. At home there are many storytellers like her stepmother, grandfather and uncle whose stories blend like a tapestry of India and East Africa that flare her child’s imagination. In her tormented married life, while becoming a woman, Sakina finds comfort in the art of the beadwork of the Maasai.

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The journey to writing the memoir begins by becoming aware of the Material World that people build around them over the years.

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Sultan Somjee: I live in Burnaby, Canada. I walk the path at crossroads of faiths and cultures, listening to stories embedded in artefacts and photographs. And I write. While writing this book I listened to many storytellers over a period of nine years. In the book I quote one Canadian storyteller called Thomas King. He is an Aboriginal storyteller. This is what he says: "The truth about stories is that that’s all we are."

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