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Braima Moiwai, The Lion Story, page 17 <br /> Author's Biographical Note: <br /> "Dome-oh Dome-Sah," this author's grandmother always said at the <br /> beginning of a story. (Here comes the story and you can hear it if you're <br /> paying attention). And the children eagerly replied, "Jah Kon-deh," (We are <br /> ready to receive it and we are listening). Braima Moiwai has been a story <br /> teller for over twenty years. The Lion's Story is just one of the many tales <br /> he heard his grandmother tell at the end of a work day on their rice farm in <br /> West Africa. He has translated them not only from the oral tradition in which <br /> he received them but also from his native tongue of Mende into English. <br /> When a terrible war took hold of his country, most of the griots and elders <br /> died, and his home was among the hundreds of villages that were <br /> destroyed. He hopes these stories will contribute to a permanent record of <br /> his country and live on for the next generation of children, in his adopted <br /> country of America and also back home. <br />