Kwesukela Storytelling Academy endeavours to achieve this vision through national and international acknowledgment as a centre of academic excellence and provider of choice of storytelling expertise, individually and in partnership with other service providers where appropriate. Objectives To be the storytelling school of choice in Africa and beyond To promote storytelling as an aspect of indigenous knowledge system (IKS) To organise storytelling events and cultural exchange programmes Train and nurture community storytellers To promote SA heritage through the living heritage of storytelling To resume the ancient positions of storytellers as historians and culturalists