African Folktales at Internet Archive: Week 33

Well, Week 33 here at the blog is over... and 2021 is over too. Working on this project has helped make this impossible year easier to bear, and I'm glad to be able to carry on writing about beautiful books at the Internet Archive in the year 2022. I hope everyone else will enjoy a good year... or at least a better year... ahead!

Here's a round-up of the books and posts from this past week, and I'll be back tomorrow to start a new week for the new year! Meanwhile, you can also browse all the round-ups from the year gone by: May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December. (I started in May right after I retired from my job teaching... and now I am finally getting in touch with my inner librarian as you can see...).

Here are the books:

 A Story, A Story: An African Tale

by Gail Haley

Don't Leave an Elephant to Go and Chase a Bird

by James Berry

The Village of Round and Square Houses

by Ann Grifalconi

Cameos From the Kraal

by M. W. Waters

The Girl who Married a Ghost

and Other Tales from Nigeria

by Ifeoma Onyefulu

African Decameron:

Folk Tales from Central Africa

by Peter Fuchs

African Folktales at Internet Archive: Week 32

I'll be otherwise occupied Christmas Day, so I'm doing the schedule a bit differently this week, with the round-up today, Friday, instead of Saturday as usual. You'll find this week's books below, and here's the month-by-month list: May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December. Plus I added a tab in the horizontal navigation across the top of the blog with a link that leads to all the round-up posts together. :-)

So, wishing happy holidays to all of you who celebrate; I'll be back on Sunday, and in the meantime... here are this week's books, all just a click away at the Internet Archive:

Mother Crocodile:

An Uncle Amadou Tale from Senegal 

by Birago Diop

Horses and Tortoises and Rabbits and Elephants

and Birds and Hippos and Lions and Sisters

and Frogs and Dogs and Hares and Jackals

and Murder: Stories From Africa

by the Dublin African Women's Network

The Hunterman and the Crocodile

by Baba Wagué Diakité

The Hatseller and the Monkeys 

by Baba Wagué Diakité

 Mee-An and the Magic Serpent

by Baba Wagué Diakité

Dahomean Narrative: A Crosscultural Analysis

by Melville and Frances Herskovits

African Folktales at Internet Archive: Week 31

For a lot of people, next week is a holiday week, and I hope it might be a week of relaxation... and reading... and storytelling! Earlier today I watched a fantastic presentation by storyteller Len Cabral (see this post) who, at the end of the talk, has some wonderful suggestions for holiday storytelling; here's the video:

Below you'll find a round-up of this week's books, plus I also did an update on the spreadsheet and on the new "reader's guide" project. For past round-ups, here's the month-by-month list: May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December.

The Fire on the Mountain,

and Other Stories from Ethiopia and Eritrea

by Harold Courlander and Wolf Leslau

How Leopard Got His Claws

by Chinua Achebe and John Iroaganachi

Why Dog Left the Forest

by Barrack Muluka

Rimonah of the Flashing Sword:

A North African Tale

by Eric Kimmel

Anansi and the Talking Melon

byEric Kimmel

Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock

byEric Kimmel

Anansi Goes Fishing

byEric Kimmel

Anansi and the Magic Stick

byEric Kimmel

Anansi's Party Time

byEric Kimmel

A Pride of African Tales

by Donna L. Washington

Ananse the Spider:

Why Spiders Stay on the Ceiling

by Stan Collins

African Folktales at Internet Archive: Week 30

We're into the double-digits of December already! Here's this week's round-up, including the latest update to the story-links spreadsheet. For previous round-ups, here they are month by month: May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December.

Spreadsheet update: 6393 stories listed from 224 different books and articles! All the details about the spreadsheet here.

And here are the books I wrote about last week:

Where the Leopard Passes:

A Book of African Folk Tales

by Geraldine Elliot

African Folktales and Activities

by Louise Orlando

The Long Grass Whispers

by Geraldine Elliot

The Honey Hunters

by Francesca Martin

Congo Fireside Tales

by Phyllis Savory

Ethiopian Folktales

by Elizabeth Laird

The Miracle Child: A Story from Ethiopia

by Elizabeth Laird and Abba Aregawi Wolde Gabriel 

African Folktales at Internet Archive: Week 29

Wrapping up week 29 of African story books at Internet Archive, and beginning the month of December too! You can see the wrap-up posts for previous months with these links: May - June - July - August - September - October - November.

I am pleased to announce that there are now over 250 books that have been featured in these blog posts! You can see the complete list of books here: Featured Books.

In addition to the books I profiled this week, I also wrote a post with the latest update to the spreadsheet listing individual stories, not just books, linked to their Internet Archive pages: over 5700 stories now linked! Here's that post: African Tales Spreadsheet.

And here are this week's books; the links take you to the blog post featuring that book:

Outa Karel's Stories:

South African Folklore Tales

by Sanni Metelerkamp

Koos, the Hottentot:

Tales of the Veld

by Josef Marais

Old Hendrik's Tales

by Arthur Owen Vaughan

The Crest and the Hide

by Harold Courlander

From a Vanished German Colony:

Folklore, Folktales and Proverbs

from Southwest Africa

by Odette St. Lys

African Myths and Legends

 by Kathleen Arnott

The Baganda: An Account 

of Their Native Customs and Beliefs

by John Roscoe

 Royal Antelope and Spider:

West African Mende Tales

 by Marion Kilson

Folklore from Africa to the United States:

An Annotated Bibliography

by Margaret Coughlan

Africa in Literature

for Children and Young Adults:

An Annotated Bibliography

of English-Language Books

by Meena Khorana