The World

TALES AS TALL AS MANGO TREES

Storyteller Ken Corsbie of Guyana and Barbados performs the birth of the steel drum, in poetry, and spins tales about northern habits of materialism.

As we continue our winter storytelling special, Ken Corsbie of Guyana and Barbados, tells the tallest tales — how to pick a mango, and adjusting to life in the cold north. And he performs the work of the beloved Caribbean poet Paul Keens-Douglas, complete with steel drum.