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.

I'm a storyteller.

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Plank number three Tell your story.

Narrator They took pictures.

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He told me the story of his life.

So let me just start with my story.

I talk about my story.

And I'm trying to tell stories only I can tell like this story.

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Newton Aduaka tells the story of Ezra

In view of the foregoing, participants at the Workshop

But now all of a sudden my job is very different, and my job is to be out here talking about it, talking about introversion.

We feel compelled to tell them.

The stories we tell about each other matter very much.

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Well, so, there's some showing as well as telling.

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And everybody's a narrator, because everybody has a story to tell.

I'm going to start and end this talk with a couple things that are carved in stone.

It's a story of a product that tells a story.

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They tell myths and legends about love.

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But I'm actually here today to tell a story.

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Various witnesses reported horrifying details of the massacre.

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Talk about the kinds of things we're scoping out.

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And I did like, you know, the narrator, and I read it.

And that's what I want to talk to you a little bit about today.

I'm here to tell you a few tales of passion.

So my final plank is, tell your story.

Now, I tell you this story about summer camp.

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(Narrator The Spyfish is a revolutionary subaquatic video camera.

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He was one of the great American folk tale tellers.

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