Oral Afrocentric storytelling as mediated enunciation in knowledge space among the Luo people of Kenya

In this article, I refl ect on the value of oral Afrocentric storytelling as a mediated method in knowledge space concerning the Luo language. The focus is on some mediation strategies that storytellers use. This was a qualitative study that purposively sampled and interviewed a group of elderly men and women based on their age, experiences in storytelling and leadership roles in the community for the stories used as data. Furthermore, I relied on personal anthropological experience and observation to obtain and analyse the data. Using the theoretical framework of narratology for analysis, I found out that storytelling is an established means of training and edutainment used across age and gender sets. Furthermore, the events in the stories transcend time and merge the worlds of animals, spirits, and humans into a single discourse space. In addition, Afrocentric features mediate in the art of narration and form part of the established tradition of storytelling.