In the early years of settlement, in Seychelles, storytelling sessions (sesyon rakont zistwar) were held during social gatherings among the slaves who worked from sunrise to late afternoon, with no possibility of communicating, other than through songs, with their brothers in misery. The evening (and Sunday) was their only moment of freedom, the one when the eye of the ‘commander’ and the master no longer watched them…
To read more about the Seychellois folktales, please click on the following links:
Introduction to the Folktales of Seychelles
