African Folktales at Internet Archive: Traditional Tales from Namibia

Carrying on with the this week's theme of stories from southern African, here is The Stolen Water and Other Stories: Traditional Tales from Namibia by Jennifer Davis, just a click away at Internet Archive.

This book contains 25 folktales, and in the acknowledgments, you'll see that the author thanks the many people who helped in gathering these stories, which is a welcome contrast to many older books (like Savory's Zulu book yesterday) in which there is not credit given to the people who helped in collecting and recording the stories. The book was published in Windhoek, Namibia in 1993:

The illustrations are by Libby Costandius, and there are LOTS of them, which really helps bring the story to life. You can see in this screenshot that the stories are abundantly illustrated:

Here is Jackal, dressed up as a dancing girl, hoping to crash a party and eat all the food:

And the illustrations are helpful for imagining the dangerous supernatural characters too, like the monster in the story of "Nehova and the Monster."

So, if you like stories about people or animals or supernatural creatures, you will find them all here, just a click away at Internet Archive:

The Stolen Water and Other Stories:
Traditional Tales from Namibia
by Jennifer Davis