If you’re passionate about color, culture and captivating stories, you’ve come to the right place. If you enjoy African tales, fables and legends, then grab your peant, kilichi or alloco chips, select your movie and savor every moment. Through this brief 3-minute animation, Les contes du Guera presents the main elements of your channel, the one which offers previously unpublished African tales in cartoon form. According to Professor Khalil Alio in his book Sussuna, it was mentioned that the tales are told at night in the Guérangué villages when everything is peaceful. Although the tale is intended to entertain, it is intended to convey a message aimed at teaching good morals and good social conduct. Nowadays, cartoons have become a way to bring tales and other narratives into our homes. Here, the stories are told with passion, some bursts of bright colors, magnificent illustrations and a multitude of magical glitter.
Folktales from Guera are centuries-old, original and overflowing with imagination. Like everywhere in Africa, in Chad the tales are told orally. Tales are reflections of our culture. Although it does not paint a complete picture of society, it nevertheless gives some indications on the different aspects such as the landscape in which the majestic mountain stands, the culinary art, the fauna, the mystery of the Maragaï (ancestral spirituality ). Even if the aim of the tale is to entertain, behind it lies a desire to convey a message with a view to instilling good morals and good social conduct. The tales of Guera highlight the benefits that secular stories can bring to our society to influence in the right direction.
Folktales of Guera proclaims the beauty of cultures, the one that tells stories forged in the ancestral traditions and philosophies of old Africa. Original tales, drawn from the voices of our talented storytellers then illustrated, colored and animated by the passion of sharing.
On this channel, humans, animals and things rub shoulders. Culinary art, adornments, clothing styles and makeup communicate with the settings where majestic mountains and colorful trees stand. Man and his environment are intertwined. Proverbs, songs, poems complete the spirit of the stories by bringing them an additional poetic touch to the beautiful nuances that compose them. Although in general good triumphs over evil, the stories are made of outcomes and twists.
The tales of Guera are journeys to the heart of landscapes composed of cultural diversity, an immersion in lands carpeted with magnificent and vast plains, a world cradled by sparkling stories where the marga, a woman with an incredible spiritual connection with the invisible world, purifies the most complex situations.
Here, the mountain ranges are the havens of sacredness, a crossroads between the divine and human worlds from which the magic that irrigates the marvelous tales of Guera is born.
In his book of instituted tales Sussuna, Professor Khalil Alio said that in the Guérangué villages (called in Arabic the Hadjaraï or in French the mountaineers) the tales are often told at night in the courtyards of the concessions, when all is calm. Even if the goal of the tale is to entertain, behind this, there is a hidden desire to pass on a message in order to instill good morals and good social conduct.