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In West Africa they say that you can’t walk where there is no ground. When Omar Dia was young he thought he could fly, but after having flown over a path that twisted and turned him to distant destinations, he returned to home in Niger, one of the most remote places in the world. Close to Omar’s home in Tillaberi, there is an outcropping with a majestic view of the Niger River. It’s called The Place Where Stories Are Told. For centuries Omar Dia’s ancestors gathered there to listen to the old stories that connected the past to the present. Having finally returned to Tillaberi, Omar wanted to make sure that his story was told.
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Stoller, P. (2016). Prologue. In: The Sorcerer's Burden . Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31805-9_1
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