Sankofa Creative Competition #4 Opens! Last Week's Winners Announced and $$Rewarded$$
With this announcement post we draw the curtains on week 3 of "Sankofa Creative Competition." The week focused on African proverbs still, and entries reined in thus:
"The Chicken Frowns At The Cooking Pot, Ignoring The Knife That Killed It" is an Igbo proverb that exposes the demerits of apportioning blames. @sussan went a step further with a story to drive the lesson. Very strong entry.
@madmaxfury earned himself the revered title of "African story teller" with a piece that extols virtues of brotherhood. He did this with an Igbo proverb accompanied by an epic tale of "The Two Seekers" that will take you through the evil forest down to the palace. I dare say this author qualifies to carry Chinua Achebe's bag. I'm not blowing smoke.
One of the other new entrants, @tezzmax a.k.a Nucleus submitted a must-read for parents and would-be parents. It says "A parent who does not shout on-top of his/her voice will one day run like a cripple man". Interesting words of wisdom from his Yoruba ancestry.
@Dante31, one of the most consistent entrants submitted yet another excellently written proverb on contentment. He took us down memory lane with a true life story of the beans seller at Abeokuta. Do you know the bean seller at Sapon?. You should meet her and be touched by her sage.
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This is strange but the gods must be talking to one another. The gods who inspire story telling. Ananse. In an interesting turnout of events @lordmok and @blessedman939 both submitted a proverb on "Finding the Root of Your Problem." Two interesting perspectives. Two original contents. Find both here and here. So much wisdom from the Yoruba culture.
Those are the ones whom the gods had chosen to speak through, who decided to do their bit to preserve what is left of their heritage. We said we will reward ALL of them this week. So everyone is a winner.
These two stand out, however. First the curators' pick recognition goes to @MADMAXFURY's extraordinary story telling. And the most popular entry according to votes cast on comments goes to @DANTE31.
The reward pool for Week 3 will be disbursed thus: MadMaxFury gets the guaranteed 5SBD, plus an additional 1SBD from the post reward. Dante follows with 4SBD prize money. The remaining 11SBD goes round across every other participant who took part. 2.75SBD for all the other contestants. Congratulations to everyone! You all won. I personally appreciate all of your efforts.
Moving forward, the fourth round is declared open with this post. For this week we will challenge you to go out of your comfort zone a bit. Make a video or sound recording of any cultural practice that explores oral storytelling. It can be a folk song or story or folk rhythm. No more than 4 minutes recording. Take a cue from the video below:
The rules are simple:
☑ Share your recording on DTube, YouTube or Soundcloud etc., make a post about it and submit the link as comment on this post. Be creative. Refer to above video as an example and inspiration.
☑ Resteem and upvote this post as soon as you see it. It's okay to resteem while you make up your mind to enter.
☑ Only original works are accepted.
☑ Be sure to use the sankofacomp tag on your entry post.
☑ Use "Sankofa Creative Competition 4" as part of your post title.
☑ Entry submission closes on midnight of the next Saturday.
a. Entries will be submitted as comments on this post.
b. Judging will still factor in the amount of votes your entry comment gets. We advice you attach a little blurb with your link to attract people to open and decide if to vote for you. One person can only vote up to two entries that aren't theirs.
c. Prize money for now is still guaranteed 5 SBD for the winner. There will be a prize for EVERYONE who enters, to be dictated by the reward pool. Resteem. Resteem. Resteem.
Alright, guys. Without much ado, go ye into the shrines, under the baobab and iroko trees, into the moonlight, to the company of grandpa, and bring those gems to the fore. Pay seven cowries if you need to. See you in seven days. Steem on.
If you are interested in sponsoring to improve our reward pool and encourage what we are doing here, please feel free to comment your interest or just signal me to a private chat. Help us preserve our own. Please UPVOTE generously and RESTEEM.
UPDATES:
We are sorry to have left out @thatdamiguy's entry in the curation. Last week's winner submitted a proverb of Yoruba descend that tasks us to explore the good in every situation. Find it here. Dami will receive his participation reward. We hope this compensates for the error. Bless.
I just discovered another entry from a teenage Nigerian who also pushed the bars. Unfortunately @ajremy failed to comment his entry link for ease of curating. His proverb is a Yoruba one that attempts to demystify fear. Great stuff from the young lad. We will send him a tip.
I wanted to cry when I saw my post wasnt included because I worked really hard on it. Well, ups and downs
That's sad. Aww. You know we are on a lookout for amazing guys like you and we won't deliberately omit you. Sure to see you on the next one. ❤
This post has received a 0.22 % upvote from @drotto thanks to: @banjo.
Congratulations @madmaxfury ....well deserved. It is better late than never.
@thatdamiguy is not here.
Fix this boss
Already did. That was an omission that wasn't intended and I personally apologized to him. Read down to the updates edited into the post. Thanks for checking that.
Congrats @madmaxfury