Traditional Story Telling and Poetry | Nigeria
Mayflower is delighted with an influx of new families arriving at school. We are proud to be the school of choice. We understand that our little corner of Plymouth is changing, and immigration as well as movement between UK cities is becoming more prevalent. Birth rates nationally are statistically dropping. Pupil numbers on roll at Mayflower are strong. We have been highly oversubscribed for many years now.
Our school embraces change and wishes to understand more about the families who attend Mayflower. We want to reach out and link up with families and explore how we can best represent all pupils. We especially want to explore faith, non-faith, literature, history, geography, music, culture and food.
One of our wonderful Nigerian parents responded to a call-out from us asking for contributions to our community newsletter group. The outcome of this is this latest project that links families to Nigerian Story Teller and Musician, Abimbola Gemini Alao.
About Abimbola Gbemi Alao
Abimbola is is a literary scholar and writer. She is the author of 6 books and translator of 8 children's books. She is a university lecturer and performance storyteller, and has taught creative writing and storytelling at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, in the UK, for 20 years.
For the past 10 years, her research has focused on the efficacy of psychosocial intervention in dementia care. Her current research focuses on the prevalence of Frontotemporal Dementia in BME communities in the UK, and how to raise awareness of FTD for early diagnosis.. She is a visiting lecturer in Medical Humanities at the Peninsular Medical School, University of Plymouth, UK.
Abimbola is a holistic coach, and works with people on how they can regain vitality, have great mental health and inner strength
for self-healing, based on natural therapies.
