Dr. Raouf Mama is an internationally known multilingual storyteller who performs indigenous tales from his native Benin. His previous books include Why Goats Smell Bad and Other Stories, Pearls of Wisdom, and The Barefoot Book of Tropical Tales.
A graduate of the University of Michigan with an M.A. in English and a Ph.D. in English and Education, Dr. Mama teaches at Eastern Connecticut State University and is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Greater Hartford Arts Council Individual Artist Award and two artist fellowships from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, which has also awarded him the title of Master Teaching Artist.
Dr. Mama is much in demand on the storytelling circuit and also gives numerous presentations in the public schools.
Works by Raouf Mama from Curbstone Press:
