The Watkins Book Of African Folklore
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The Watkins Book Of African Folklore
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Author : Helen Nde
language : en
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited (US, CA)
Release Date : 2025-03-11
The Watkins Book Of African Folklore written by Helen Nde and has been published by Watkins Media Limited (US, CA) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-03-11 with Social Science categories.
A rich, contemporary and entertaining collection of 50 African folk tales with commentary from noted folklorist Helen Nde, presented in a beautiful, foiled gift package. Combining vivid storytelling, astonishing imagination and careful research, this is the ultimate collection of African folklore. From creation myths and foundation legends to fascinating stories of human relationships and amusing animal tales, these stories provide a diverse look at the countries and cultures across the African continent. Noted folklorist Helen Nde also provides marvellous context for history and colonial influences for the stories. Read 50 stories that take you north to Egypt, west to Sierra Leone, east to Somalia, south to South Africa and many places in-between. Discover the geographical and cultural variety of the continent with stories such as: FROM ALGERIA: The Story of the First Man and Woman FROM SUDAN: Okwa and the River Maiden FROM ZIMBABWE: The Moon and His Wives FROM GHANA: How Goat Caused a War FROM TANZANIA: The Singing Kagura Birds Carefully researched and vividly retold these stories represent a vital and fresh perspective on African Folktales for anyone interested in folktales, mythology and storytelling from around the world.
The Best Of African Folklore
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Author : Phyllis Savory
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Release Date : 2015-03-27
The Best Of African Folklore written by Phyllis Savory and has been published by Penguin Random House South Africa this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-27 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Africa has a wonderfully rich store of folk tales that have been passed down from one generation to the next. There are stories about how the world came into being, stories that tell of the relationships between human beings and between man and his environment, and of the lessons to be learned from everyday experience. The tales are like the fairy talkes told all over the world, but they have a strong African flavour that is as real as the smell of rain on hot earth. The Best of African Folklore takes the reader into an enchanted world where animals can talk and humans are often changed into different forms, where magic is commonplace and reality is turned delightfully on its head. Despite numerous setbacks, things usually turn out all right in the end. Wicked and greedy people (and animals) come off worst and the good receive their just rewards. The gods are stern but fair, and every story has a moral for those who are wise enough to see it.
West African Folktales
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Author : Richard A. Spears
language : en
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Release Date : 1991-10
West African Folktales written by Richard A. Spears and has been published by Northwestern University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-10 with Fiction categories.
Collection of West African folktales drawn from prose narratives, proverbs, riddles, and songs.
African Folklore
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Author : Philip M. Peek
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2004-03-01
African Folklore written by Philip M. Peek and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-03-01 with Reference categories.
Written by an international team of experts, this is the first work of its kind to offer comprehensive coverage of folklore throughout the African continent. Over 300 entries provide in-depth examinations of individual African countries, ethnic groups, religious practices, artistic genres, and numerous other concepts related to folklore. Featuring original field photographs, a comprehensive index, and thorough cross-references, African Folklore: An Encyclopedia is an indispensable resource for any library's folklore or African studies collection. Also includes seven maps.
African Folktales
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Author : Roger Abrahams
language : en
Publisher: Pantheon
Release Date : 1983-08-12
African Folktales written by Roger Abrahams and has been published by Pantheon this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983-08-12 with Fiction categories.
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
The Annotated African American Folktales The Annotated Books
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Author : Henry Louis Gates Jr.
language : en
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
Release Date : 2017-11-14
The Annotated African American Folktales The Annotated Books written by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and has been published by Liveright Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-14 with Literary Collections categories.
Winner • NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Fiction) Winner • Anne Izard Storytellers’ Choice Award Holiday Gift Guide Selection • Indiewire, San Francisco Chronicle, and Minneapolis Star-Tribune These nearly 150 African American folktales animate our past and reclaim a lost cultural legacy to redefine American literature. Drawing from the great folklorists of the past while expanding African American lore with dozens of tales rarely seen before, The Annotated African American Folktales revolutionizes the canon like no other volume. Following in the tradition of such classics as Arthur Huff Fauset’s “Negro Folk Tales from the South” (1927), Zora Neale Hurston’s Mules and Men (1935), and Virginia Hamilton’s The People Could Fly (1985), acclaimed scholars Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Maria Tatar assemble a groundbreaking collection of folktales, myths, and legends that revitalizes a vibrant African American past to produce the most comprehensive and ambitious collection of African American folktales ever published in American literary history. Arguing for the value of these deceptively simple stories as part of a sophisticated, complex, and heterogeneous cultural heritage, Gates and Tatar show how these remarkable stories deserve a place alongside the classic works of African American literature, and American literature more broadly. Opening with two introductory essays and twenty seminal African tales as historical background, Gates and Tatar present nearly 150 African American stories, among them familiar Brer Rabbit classics, but also stories like “The Talking Skull” and “Witches Who Ride,” as well as out-of-print tales from the 1890s’ Southern Workman. Beginning with the figure of Anansi, the African trickster, master of improvisation—a spider who plots and weaves in scandalous ways—The Annotated African American Folktales then goes on to draw Caribbean and Creole tales into the orbit of the folkloric canon. It retrieves stories not seen since the Harlem Renaissance and brings back archival tales of “Negro folklore” that Booker T. Washington proclaimed had emanated from a “grapevine” that existed even before the American Revolution, stories brought over by slaves who had survived the Middle Passage. Furthermore, Gates and Tatar’s volume not only defines a new canon but reveals how these folktales were hijacked and misappropriated in previous incarnations, egregiously by Joel Chandler Harris, a Southern newspaperman, as well as by Walt Disney, who cannibalized and capitalized on Harris’s volumes by creating cartoon characters drawn from this African American lore. Presenting these tales with illuminating annotations and hundreds of revelatory illustrations, The Annotated African American Folktales reminds us that stories not only move, entertain, and instruct but, more fundamentally, inspire and keep hope alive. The Annotated African American Folktales includes: Introductory essays, nearly 150 African American stories, and 20 seminal African tales as historical background The familiar Brer Rabbit classics, as well as news-making vernacular tales from the 1890s’ Southern Workman An entire section of Caribbean and Latin American folktales that finally become incorporated into the canon Approximately 200 full-color, museum-quality images
African Genesis
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Author : Leo Frobenius
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 1999-01-01
African Genesis written by Leo Frobenius and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-01-01 with Social Science categories.
Presents a collection of African folk tales and myths.
African Myths And Folk Tales
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language : en
Publisher:
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South African Folk Tales
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Author : Various
language : en
Publisher: Abela Publishing Ltd
Release Date : 2009
South African Folk Tales written by Various and has been published by Abela Publishing Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Fiction categories.
This unique and exquisite collection of folk tales and legends from South Africa, originally published in 1910, is now being resurrected to benefit those young South Africans who would not normally receive a full education.
African Myths And Folk Tales
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Author : Carter Godwin Woodson
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2012-03-05
African Myths And Folk Tales written by Carter Godwin Woodson and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-05 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
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.