The Bantu Metaphor Game

For writers but especially writing teachers, I came across an article from Absolute Write on writing metaphors using an oral tradition among the Bantu people of Africa. This seems like the sort of thing that would be helpful in teaching the art of the metaphor to students who are just learning, or basically any creative writing class. Unfortunately I could only find it in this newsletter form, so scroll down about halfway.

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