A Pride of African Tales

A Pride of African Tales PDF Author: Donna L. Washington
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060249293
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 90

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Book Description
A collection of African folktales originating in the storytelling tradition.

A Pride of African Tales

A Pride of African Tales PDF Author: Donna L. Washington
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060249293
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 90

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Book Description
A collection of African folktales originating in the storytelling tradition.

African Myths and Folk Tales

African Myths and Folk Tales PDF Author: Carter Godwin Woodson
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486114287
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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Book Description
Compiled by the "Father of Black History," these fables unfold amid a magical realm of tricksters and fairies. Recounted in simple language, they will enchant readers and listeners of all ages. Over 60 illustrations.

African Tales

African Tales PDF Author: Gcina Mhlophe
Publisher: Barefoot Books
ISBN: 1782854444
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 99

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Book Description
This anthology includes eight traditional tales from all over Africa. Sumptuous hand-sewn collage artwork decorated with African beads adorns these unforgettable tales of bravery, wisdom, wit and heroic deeds

African Tales 2

African Tales 2 PDF Author: M.N. Akinwunmi-Othman
Publisher: Akin Othman Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 94

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Book Description
As well being a source of entertainment for millennia, the telling of stories in Africa has been an important way to communicate vital life-lessons across the generations. African culture, wisdom and morals were preserved in this way both prior to, and after colonisation of the continent. The thought-provoking stories collected within ‘African Tales Two’ are inspired by the stories told to the author as a young boy, as he sat enthralled on his Grandmother’s knees in Nigeria. The book is more than just a collection of tales themed around various engaging characters. It is a significant contribution to the rediscovery and revitalisation of African heritage. Part One of the book chronicles an expedition into the ‘Forest of the Djins’ and the ‘Land of the Dead’ by a man in search of an heir. Part Two is a collection of short stories - each of which tell us much about the morals, etiquette and values found within African culture.

South-African Folk-Tales

South-African Folk-Tales PDF Author: James A. Honey
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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Book Description
This collection of folktales from South Africa has been put together the author says, not for scholarship but for a love of the sunny country where he was born. Some stories originate from Dutch sources, and some have several versions. Most are tales told by the bushmen.

West African Folk Tales

West African Folk Tales PDF Author: Hugh Vernon-Jackson
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486427641
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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Book Description
Presents twenty-one traditional tales from West Africa, including "The Greedy but Cunning Tortoise," "The Boy in the Drum," and "The Magic Cooking Pot."

Favorite African Folktales

Favorite African Folktales PDF Author: Nelson Mandela
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393326246
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Book Description
Favorite African Folktales is a landmark work that gathers many of Africa's most cherished folktales-stories from an oral heritage that predates Ovid and Aesop-in one extraordinary volume. Nelson Mandela has selected these thirty-two tales, many of them translated from their original tongues, with the specific hope that Africa's oldest stories, as well as a few new ones, will be perpetuated by future generations and appreciated by children and adults throughout the world. Book jacket.

Her Stories

Her Stories PDF Author: Virginia Hamilton
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 9780590473705
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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Book Description
Nineteen stories focus on the magical lore and wondrous imaginings of African American women.

African Folk Tales

African Folk Tales PDF Author: Hugh Vernon-Jackson
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486110028
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 66

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Book Description
Entertaining stories handed down from generation to generation among tribal cultures include "The Magic Crocodile," "The Hare and the Crownbird," "The Boy in the Drum," 15 others. 19 illustrations.

African Folktales

African Folktales PDF Author: Roger Abrahams
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 0307803198
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385

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Book Description
The deep forest and broad savannah, the campsites, kraals, and villages—from this immense area south of the Sahara Desert the distinguished American folklorist Roger D. Abrahams has selected ninety-five tales that suggest both the diversity and the interconnectedness of the people who live there. The storytellers weave imaginative myths of creation and tales of epic deeds, chilling ghost stories, and ribald tales of mischief and magic in the animal and human realms. Abrahams renders these stories in a narrative voice that reverberates with the rhythms of tribal song and dance and the emotional language of universal concerns. With black-and-white drawings throughout Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library