Talk:Gina Din

False attribution of the "Those who tell the stories" quote

This quote is widely attributed to a traditional Hopi (Native American) proverb, not Gina Din. Gina Din has offices where there are quotes displayed on the wall, this being one of them - see https://issuu.com/whitecollarmagazine/docs/whitecollar009_mar19_fa/s/81753 In addition, the article referenced as the source is no longer available, not even from a search on the AWmagazine website. The article can still be retrieved from https://web.archive.org/web/20171003101011/https://www.awmagazine.org/gina-din-kariuki-i-want-to-see-a-more-assertive-african-youth/ - this shows that Gina Din did not claim to originate the quote, but merely said she had it on her office wall. There is also a variant of this quote, "Those who tell stories rule society" which is widely attributed to Plato, but it seems nobody can provide an exact reference. It is probably borrowed from the Hopi proverb as a gloss for a far more nuanced argument about the influence of poets and storytellers on uneducated minds, found in Plato's "The Republic" Oakenhill (talk) 14:57, 7 October 2024 (UTC)