Orunamamu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Orunamamu

American/Canadian storyteller, raconteur, griot

Date of Birth: 04-Apr-1921

Place of Birth: Birmingham, Alabama, United States

Date of Death: 04-Sep-2014

Profession: spoken word artist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Orunamamu (4 April 1921 – 4 September 2014) was an American/Canadian professional storyteller, raconteur and griot.
Her peripatetic storytelling led her on extensive, demanding and often impromptu journeys across the United States including Alaska, overseas to the United Kingdom and Egypt and finally to Canada.
She is included in a number of books, journals, articles and two documentaries.
Her performance medium was the spoken voice in performances to audiences.
For Orunamamu storytelling became her cause as well as her art form, because "[s]torytelling demonstrates the humanity in every culture." Orunamamu died in Calgary, Alberta on 4 September 2014 at the age of 93.
She was booked to perform at the Calgary Spoken Word Festival in the summer of 2014.
Orunamamu has been the subject of countless portraits over many decades and in many countries, including photographers such as Arthur Koch (Oakland), Kenneth Locke (Calgary) and Jim Hair.
Many of these are shared through social media.