Mama Koku is known throughout metro Atlanta for her extreme interactive storytelling style.  She rarely performs alone as students and audience members join her on stage for an energized, improvised “story-doing” experience!  Koku,  graduated with honors from North Carolina Central University majoring in Theater with concentrations in Performance and Education. Early in her career, she taught in the classroom as a high school theatre teacher and was a Pre-K lead teacher for seven years.  As a Teaching Artist, Storyteller and Children’s Writer of more than 25 years.  Koku’s magnetic style once earned her the title of Official Teller for the National Black Arts Festival’s Education Village and The Coretta Scott King Book Awards Book Fair. She was also a Rambler for the Wrens Nest House Museum for seven years.

More recently, Mama Koku has created and performed educational programming for the Fulton County Schools Teaching Museums for over 15 years.   She co-starred and provided voice-over for the series Museum Adventures with Professor Inquiry produced by the Museum and FCS TV which won an Instructional/Education 2024 Southeast Emmy Award for the episode, “Don’t Eat the Brownie!”  Koku has also performed as a featured storyteller, narrator, and writer for The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s Concerts for the Very Young, and performs regularly for major Metro-Atlanta venues including the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Site, The Atlanta History Center, The Atlanta Botanical Gardens, The Atlanta Children’s Museum, and has produced and hosted her own Storytime/literacy events; Saturday Stories with Mama Koku, and The Fairy Festival Conference & Convention. Reruns of her children’s program, World Stories with Mama Koku, produced by Atlanta Interfaith Broadcasters can be seen on You Tube.   Mama Koku is the author of the picture books “Zuri the Fairy”, and “Little Black Fairy and Other Very Fairy, Stories, Poems, Rhythms & Rhymes”, both available on Amazon. Maybe you’ve even caught one of her performances….