Storytelling as Power

What if power is not where you think it is?

Every civilisation in human history has been built on a story. Storytelling as Power traces the architecture of narrative from its oldest roots - the cosmological myths of ancient peoples, the griot traditions of West Africa, the sacred texts of world civilisations - to its most contemporary form: the digital narrative warfare being prosecuted between nations on the world’s information battlefields.

Drawing on philosophy, political theory, cultural studies and the African intellectual tradition, it makes a single, relentless argument: story is not a tool of power. It is the condition of power. It was always thus.