HIGHER EDUCATION TODAY - STORYTELLING Guests: Omar Badsha, Photographer, Artist, and Founder of South African History Online; Mae Sithole, Pan-African Musician; and Stephen "Sugar" Segerman, Protagonist, "Searching for Sugar Man" and Former Owner of Mabu Vinyl Host: Steven Roy Goodman Original Air Date: 3 September 2019 In this episode of Higher Education Today, Steven explores various ways of storytelling. Story can be told in many forms, photography being one of them. Photography can aid in confronting censorship and giving people agency. During the apartheid regime it helped people visually see aspects of the apartheid government. In Africa art was / is used for the liberation of the people and music played a very big role because of its way of conveying the message/story of the people on the ground, says Zimbabwean musician Mae Sithole. But within that, story can be used to uplift people like that of the documentary Searching for Sugar Man which brought people to a time that once was and also revived the career of a forgotten artist. Story is used more than anything in exposing people to different world views. Listening and engaging with peoples’ stories helps you in your storytelling. Omar Badsha says, “Your audience is as important as your own sense of telling a story.” Storytelling, whether through music, photo or film, can be a vessel that contextualises people and helps them see themselves.