African Folktales at Internet Archive: Week 15

I really enjoyed this week of stories from Nigeria, and I am especially glad to have discovered the identity of the author of the Yoruba Legends book of 1929; that was something I had not known before! This week's books are all listed below, and here are the past round-ups: May - June - July - August.

Hausa Tales and Traditions

by Neil Skinner

Hausa Folklore, Customs, Proverbs, etc.

by Malam Shaihu and R. S. Rattray

Hausa Superstitions and Customs

by A. J. N. Tremearne

Fables and Fairy Tales for Little Folk,

or Uncle Remus in Hausaland

by Mary and Mary Tremearne

Nigerian Folk Tales

by Barbara K. and Warren S. Walker

The Dancing Palm Tree

and Other Nigerian Folktales

by Barbara K. Walker

Yoruba Legends

by M. I. (Margaret Irene) Ogumefu

Fourteen Hundred Cowries

and Other African Tales

by Abayomi Fuja

African Folktales at Internet Archive: Week 14

The focus this week was on some major scholarly projects collecting folktales from different parts of Africa, and here are the round-ups for the past months: May - June - July - August.

The focus for next week will be on stories from Nigeria! :-)

How to Read a Folktale:

The Ibonia Epic from Madagascar

by Lee Haring

Storytelling in Northern Zambia:

Theory, Method, Practice

and Other Necessary Fictions

by Robert Cancel

Akan-Ashanti Folk-Tales

by R. S. Rattray

The Adventures of Aku

by Ashley Bryan

Half-a-Ball-of-Kenki

by Verna Aardema

Anansi Finds a Fool

by Verna Aardema

The Sky-God Stories

by Verna Aardema

Tales Tiv Tell

by Harold and Ruth Bergsman

Tales, Customs, Names, and Dirges

of the Tigre Tribes

by Enno Littmann

When the Drum Sang: 

An African Folktale

by Anne Rockwell

The Treasury of Basuto Lore

by Edouard Jacottet

Lamba Folklore

by Clement Doke

African Folktales at Internet Archive: Week 13

This was such a fun week: I focused on books illustrated by Jerry Pinkney and by Leo and Diane Dillon. Plus, I hit 100 slides in the slideshow! There is still lots more to come; I'm planning to do another 100 African folklore books, and then move on to an African American and Caribbean project. So many beautiful books to come, I promise! Past round-ups: May - June - July - August.

Behind the Back of the Mountain:

Black Folktales from Southern Africa

by Verna Aardema

Who's in Rabbit's House? A Masai Tale

by Verna Aardema

Tales for the Third Ear from Equatorial Africa

by Verna Aardema

Songs and Stories from Uganda

by W. Moses Serwadda

African Genesis: 

Folk Tales and Myths of Africa 

by Leo Frobenius

Gassire's Lute: A West African Epic

adapted by Alta Jablow

The Great Min    u

by Beth Wilson

Ji-nongo-nongo Means Riddles

by Verna Aardema

African Folktales at Internet Archive: Week 12

Welcome to the first August round-up of African folktale books at Internet Archive! You can find the earlier round-ups here: May - June - July. This week the focus was on story collections from western Africa:

West African Folktales

by Jack Berry

The Black Cloth:

A Collection of African Folktales

by Bernard Dadié

The Pot of Wisdom:

Ananse Stories

by Adwoa Badoe

Limba Stories and Storytelling

by Ruth Finnegan

The Cow-Tail Switch

and Other West African Stories

by Harold Courlander and George Herzog

Animals Mourn for Da Leopard,

and Other West African Tales

by Peter Dorliae