African Nursery Rhymes
An African child should be intricately knowledgeable of their mother tongue nursery rhymes.
African Nursery Rhymes
Nursery rhymes are traditional songs for children. They may including short rhyming songs, lullabies and much more. They have been passed around for generations by our grandparents and every child has a fond memory of their favourite popular nursery rhyme from your childhood. The best thing is that nursery rhymes can be introduced from birth or even before and continue to promote these skills throughout early childhood.
Nursery rhymes are a very useful tool to provide bite-sized learning opportunities for young children to develop key developmental skills. Their delivery method makes it easy to remember as they can often replay in the mind hours after they have been delivered. They are a powerful learning source in early literacy and enable children to become interested in the rhythm and patterns of language.
Rhymes are fantastic vocabulary boosters. They often feature a pleasing rhythmic pattern and simple repetitive phrases that babies and young children find easy to remember and repeat. In order to develop their phonological awareness, children need to be repeatedly exposed to language and nursery rhymes provide the perfect way to do this.
There are hundreds of African nursery rhymes that we have grown up listening to which are not as commercialised as their western counterparts. There is absolutely no developmental advantage for an African child to be singing “humpty dumpty” or “Baa, baa, Black sheep” in this day and age. Its outdated and not relatable to any of our cultures.
Our young children have the capacity to learn and retain an enormous repertoire of songs and tunes leaving plenty of room and opportunity for traditional nursery rhymes. Nursery rhymes should be used as a tool to teach history and connect a child to the past.
This category of our channel is one of the most important due to the intensity in competition from western popular channels that have been dominating the market for years. Our approach will be to simply popularise African nursery rhymes through nostalgia, every parent will certainly embrace the memory of listening to modern production of a song their mother/grandmother used to sing to them. This will encourage conversations between parents and their children, helping to strengthen the bond between them and build cherished memories.
Nursery rhymes are a very useful tool to provide bite-sized learning opportunities for young children to develop key developmental skills. Their delivery method makes it easy to remember as they can often replay in the mind hours after they have been delivered. They are a powerful learning source in early literacy and enable children to become interested in the rhythm and patterns of language.
Rhymes are fantastic vocabulary boosters. They often feature a pleasing rhythmic pattern and simple repetitive phrases that babies and young children find easy to remember and repeat. In order to develop their phonological awareness, children need to be repeatedly exposed to language and nursery rhymes provide the perfect way to do this.
There are hundreds of African nursery rhymes that we have grown up listening to which are not as commercialised as their western counterparts. There is absolutely no developmental advantage for an African child to be singing “humpty dumpty” or “Baa, baa, Black sheep” in this day and age. Its outdated and not relatable to any of our cultures.
Our young children have the capacity to learn and retain an enormous repertoire of songs and tunes leaving plenty of room and opportunity for traditional nursery rhymes. Nursery rhymes should be used as a tool to teach history and connect a child to the past.
This category of our channel is one of the most important due to the intensity in competition from western popular channels that have been dominating the market for years. Our approach will be to simply popularise African nursery rhymes through nostalgia, every parent will certainly embrace the memory of listening to modern production of a song their mother/grandmother used to sing to them. This will encourage conversations between parents and their children, helping to strengthen the bond between them and build cherished memories.
“Experts in literacy and child development have discovered that if children know eight nursery rhymes by heart by the time they’re four years old, they’re usually among the best readers by the time they’re eight”. – Mem Fox, Reading Magic.
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