Stephen Davies

Welcome. My name is Stephen Davies and I am a children's author writing picture books, chapter books and teen novels. I have lived in Africa for ten years, working with World Horizons amongst Fulani cattle herders. My books are set in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, on the edge of the Sahara Desert.

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A Day in the Life of a Garibou

by Stephen Davies

A few years ago I wrote an article for Nthposition entitled Garibous of God – a shapshot of the lives of young Qur’anic students in the north of Burkina Faso. This year I made a five-minute documentary in a similar vein, following two ten year-old garibous through a typical day – and night.

Published: August 21, 2012 | Filed Under: Social Justice | Tags: : : : : : : :

Chichester Library Summer Reading Challenge: Storylab

by Stephen Davies

If you live in Chichester and have children aged between 4 and 11, come on down to the launch of the Summer Reading Challenge at 9am tomorrow at Chichester library. The Summer Reading Challenge is about getting children interested in reading for pleasure, and this year it’s called The Story Lab. The Story Lab is [...]

Published: July 13, 2012 | Filed Under: Picture Books, School visits, YA books | Tags: : : : :

A Fulani griot from Burkina Faso recites the genealogy of a chief

by Stephen Davies

Griots are well known for their prodigious memories and their uncanny way with words. In the radio studio the other day I recorded an hour-long cassette with Hassan Sango and Ousmane Kuyate. Hassan is griot (praise singer) to Hammadi bii Hammadi the traditional chief of Djibo. Ousmane, playing the hoddu (four-string guitar), is a well-known [...]

Published: January 20, 2012 | Filed Under: Griots | Tags: : : :

‘Wild at Heart’ – the missing chapter

by Stephen Davies

For he today that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition: And gentlemen in England now a-bed Shall think themselves accursed they were not here! (Henry V, act IV, scene iii) A World Horizons field leader attended a recent missions conference with [...]

Published: November 12, 2011 | Filed Under: Social Justice | Tags: : : : : : : : : : : :