Eastern Connecticut State University professor Dr. Raouf Mama will discuss his memoirs and poems on March 7, 1:30-2:30 p.m. in the 600 Building, Room 6-127. Mama is an internationally recognized, award-winning author out of the African oral tradition. He is the only storyteller in the world today who collects, writes and performs folktales from his native Benin in English, French, Yoruba and Fon, according to ESCU’s website. His books include “Fortune’s Favored Child,” (Northwestern University Press, 2014), “Why Monkeys Live in Trees” (Curbstone Press 2006), winner of the 2008 National Children’s Book Award, “Tropical Tales” (Barefoot Books, 2001), selected as one the best 10 illustrated children’s books of the year by the Bank Street School of Education in 2002, “Pearls of Wisdom” (Pro Lingua Associates, 2000) and “Why Goats Smell Bad and Other Stories from Benin” (Shoestring Press, 1998). Part of International Week events at the college. For more information, email [email protected].