The African views life itself as a proverb whose meaning lies in an unraveling of its symbols. This portrait of East Africa’s best-known artist begins, like all African folktales, with animals, and proceeds through a series of adages—It is better to see once than to hear a hundred times. If you discipline your child, you must not stop her from crying. If you don’t know where you are going, any road will lead you there—to illustrate Elimo Njau’s role as an artist in enabling Africans to return to their ancestral culture. (21 minutes)

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