NORWAY – The Children’s Department at Norway Memorial Library offered two programs on African culture during the recent school vacation week.

Students listened to African folktales, made crafts and musical instruments, learned a Nigerian song and participated in a drumming circle. Special guests Bernie Vigna and his sons, Peter and Paul, who are from Sierra Leone, demonstrated a variety of African musical instruments.

The students also decorated boxes to be used for collecting books to send to Mabule, Botswana, to start a library at the Mabule Primary School. In addition, they wrote letters and drew pictures of their families to send to the students in Mabule, along with drawing supplies so that they may make drawings to send back to Norway.

Oxford Hills libraries are collecting books for Mabule throughout March in partnership with the African Library Project.

For more information on the book project, go to www.oxfordhillsreads.blogspot.com or www.africanlibraryproject.org.