BRING AFRICA TO LIFE IN YOUR SCHOOL OR LIBRARY
    Engage your students in an unforgettable cultural experience that blends storytelling, global learning, and creativity. Through her book Meet My Africa, Ayo Wilson takes students on an interactive journey across the African continent, sparking curiosity, building empathy, and inspiring young minds.

    WHY SCHOOLS LOVE THIS VISIT
    • Builds global awareness & cultural understanding
    • Supports literacy and storytelling skills   
    • Encourages empathy, kindness, and curiosity   
    • Highly interactive and student-centred
    • Perfect for assemblies, literacy days, and multicultural events

    OPTION 1: PRESENTATION (45 minutes per session)
    • Behind the story: from idea to published book, students discover how an author develops an idea through brainstorming, drafting, revising and rewriting, editing, and publishing. Students learn that strong writing is a process and that even published authors improve their work through multiple drafts.
    • Visual journey through African countries, cultures, and languages, helping students develop global awareness and appreciation for cultural diversity.
    • Exploration of wildlife, traditions, and everyday life, encouraging curiosity and broadening students’ understanding of Africa.
    • Music, movement, and student participation create a lively, memorable, and highly interactive learning experience.
    • Themes of empathy, kindness, and respect are woven throughout the presentation, encouraging students to value both similarities and differences among people and cultures.
    • Live student Q&A gives students the opportunity to ask questions about Africa, storytelling, becoming an author, and the writing and publishing process.
    • Ideal for school assemblies, Literacy Week, author visits, multicultural celebrations, Black History Month, and cultural diversity events.

    OPTION 2: CULTURAL ARTS & CRAFTS (45 minutes)
    (Schools provide materials for the selected activity)
    • Egyptian Necklaces
    • Giraffe Craft 
    • African Sunset Silhouette Art

    BOOKING & CONTACT
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    Instagram: authorayowilson

    PRESENTATION DETAILS
    Suitable for: Kindergarten to Grade 6
    Format: Assembly or classroom sessions
    Requirements: Projector, one table and a chair

    BOOK SIGNING
    Pre-ordered books are personally signed
    Additional book signing available during visit                       
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