Our Storyteller: Comfort Ero

Being a chief's daughter, Comfort Ero was raised in a Nigerian Bini chief's household where tradition and culture are passed on to the child by the ever-present grandparents, uncles, aunties and cousins who all live within the same household.

Comfort has learned and told folktales and songs ever since she learned to talk. Her vivacity in this regard prompted her parents to send her to school in the city. She studied languages and drama and became a teacher at a time when it was very unpopular in Africa to send girls to school. She has over twenty years of experience as a classroom teacher and principal in Nigerian high schools and colleges

Comfort is a Member of:

• B.C. College of Teachers
• Puente Theatre, Greater Victoria
• Vancouver Society of Storytelling
• Victoria Storytellers' Guild
• Board of Directors, Collingwood Neighbourhood House

Achievements and Awards:

• Victoria Christian Writers' Association in a short Story contest - A Christmas journey YMCA/YWCA nominee for Arts and Culture
• Won the first prize for La Fuite A French novel and for Kerike the Cricket in a literary competition organized by the Association of Nigerian Authors
• Featured on Vancouver Society of Storytelling CD project: How Music came to the World and other stories
• Most Recent Publication: Children's Fiction - Kokodiko: The Dance Monster