This was the home of my Internet Archive bibliography work; now I am not sure what it will be...
Thursday, September 30, 2021
African Folktales at Internet Archive: Kebra Nagast
Wednesday, September 29, 2021
African Folktales at Internet Archive: Kelefaa Saane / Ngoni
Tuesday, September 28, 2021
African Folktales at Internet Archive: Mwindo Epic
Monday, September 27, 2021
African Folktales at Internet Archive: Sunjata
Sunday, September 26, 2021
African Folktales at Internet Archive: Epic Traditions of Africa / Sundiata
Saturday, September 25, 2021
African Folktales at Internet Archive: Week 19
Friday, September 24, 2021
African Folktales at Internet Archive: The Magic Horns
Finishing up this week of stories from southern African (see all the posts on one page), here is a collection of stories from Botswana: The Magic Horns: Folk Tales from Africa by Stuart Forbes.
Stuart Forbes was born in Bechuanaland in southern Africa, a British possession which in 1966 gained its independence and became Botswana:
The book contains eight of the stories that Forbes remembers from his childhood there, and there is additional information in the introduction about the sources for the different stories.
There are marvelous illustrations by Charles Keeping, who was a quite famous illustrator in fact; you can find out more about his work at Wikipedia. Keeping really brings the animal characters to life with so much personality. Here are tortoise and leopard for example:
The Magic Horns:
Folk Tales from Africa
by Stuart Forbes
Thursday, September 23, 2021
African Folktales at Internet Archive: Xhosa Ntsomi
edited by Harold Scheub