Here is the first spreadsheet update of 2022 (I'm still not used to typing that number!); you can read about the evolution of this spreadsheet project over the last couple months of 2021 in the
previous updates. There are now over 9000 stories listed from over 300 different books and articles, and the end is in sight; I'll keep adding items to this spreadsheet as long as there are more African folktales at the Internet Archive to link to, and then I'll be moving on to a related project: indexing African American and Caribbean stories. I'm thinking I might be ready to do that sometime in February, which will be a really exciting project to have going in Black History Month!
Meanwhile, as always, you can access the spreadsheet here:
African Tales Spreadsheet, and also by the link in the tab navigation above.
In the spreadsheet, you'll find links for each story to the Internet Archive page, plus links to versions of the stories that I've written (more about those tiny versions of the stories here:
Africa.LauraGibbs.net).
As I've explained in previous posts, you can do searches and create data filters, and you can also copy the spreadsheet for your own use. Of course you can also create your own spreadsheet of the Internet Archive resources you are curating (for your own use or perhaps for your students), and if you think it will be useful to others, perhaps you will share that publicly also!
Here are just a few of the sources I added since the last update:
(a wonderful booklet that I uploaded to the Internet Archive)
(stories from the Congo in a children's book)
(there are 10 Jewish legends from North Africa in this book)
(Yoruba folktales plus commentary and analysis)
(a lovely book of Nigerian folktales)
(stories from Namibia)
(stories from Tanzania)
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