Acclaimed storyteller Jan Blake and long-term collaborator, drummer John Predare, bring an epic performance to Kings Place. This inspiring tale – The Birth of Sundiata Keita, legendary founder of the great Malian Empire of West Africa – reaches across the centuries, from its origins in 13th-century Africa to the conflicts in our own time where its telling has been forbidden.

UK’s most vivid and exciting storytelling organisationIan McMillan, The Times