Four languages. Real voices. No shortcuts.
Folktales, proverbs, and riddles in Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo, and Fulfulde — written, narrated, and reviewed by native speakers. Your child hears the language as it is actually spoken.
Live at launch
Why we built it
A letter from the people making this.
I grew up listening to my grandmother tell tatsuniya by kerosene lamp. When my own children started school, I realised none of those stories were being passed down the way she had passed them to me. The tape was breaking.
Dandali is our answer. Not a replacement for grandmothers — nothing is — but a place where the stories can live, in the right languages, narrated by people who grew up speaking them, and available whenever a family needs them.
We’re a small team: four contributors across four language communities, plus writers, illustrators, and parents who test every release. If you use Dandali and it feels like home, that’s the point.
Abdullahi Yusuf
Founder, Dandali