African Folktales at Internet Archive: Week 28

I hope everybody is doing well as we near the end of this month of November! I carried on with this month's project of focusing on public domain resources and also more contemporary books inspired by those resources; you can see the books from this past week all listed below. This was Week 28 (!), and you can see all the round-ups from past weeks using these links month by month: May - June - July - August - September - October - November.

I also updated the spreadsheet of story links! There are now over 5000 links there in over 170 books, all leading to the Internet Archive: everything just a click away, thanks to the power of Controlled Digital Lending. More about the spreadsheet here.

And here are this week's books:

Congo Life and Folklore

by John Weeks

The Mighty Sparrow:

A Trickster Tale of the African Congo

by Edel Wignell

The Mythology of All Races: African

by Alice Werner

Myths and Legends of the Bantu

by Alice Werner

Natives of British Central Africa

by Alice Werner

African Wonder Tales

by Frances Carpenter

The Shilluk People, 

Their Language and Folklore

by Diedrich Westermann

Lord of the Four Quarters:

Myths of the Royal Father

by John Weir Perry

The Life of a South African Tribe

by Henri-Alexandre Junod

Trickster Tales:

Forty Folk Stories from Around the World

by Josepha Sherman

African Folktales at Internet Archive: Week 27

This was an exciting week for me: as part of this public domain focus in November, I learned how to make my own PDF-book, remixing pages from PDFs at the Internet Archive to create a customized PDF anthology; for this week, I made an anthology of all the African folktales in the Andrew Lang Fairy Books. That is just the first of what I hope will be a lot of public domain anthologies to come. Meanwhile, you can find all the books from Week 27 (!) below, and here are the links to round-up posts from previous months: May - June - July - August - September - October - November.

I'll be back tomorrow to start the final week of this public domain adventure in November!

The Bojabi Tree: An African Folktale

by Edith Rickert

The Magic Bojabi Tree

by Dianne Hofmeyr

Basutoland: Its Legends and Customs

by Minnie Martin

Song of the Broken String:

Poems from a Lost Oral Tradition

by Stephen Watson

Magana Hausa, to which is added

a translation in English

by J. F. Schon

Chinamwanga Stories

by Emmeline H. Dewar

African Jungle Tales

by C. J. Bender

African Folktales

in the Fairy Books of Andrew Lang

Native Fairy Tales of South Africa

by Ethel L. McPherson

Beat the Story-Drum, Pum-Pum

by Ashley Bryan

In the Shadow of the Bush

by P. Amaury Talbot

African Folktales at Internet Archive: Week 26

I'm now about half-way through my public domain project for the month of November, and this week I featured stories in the public domain from Nigeria, Liberia, and Cameroon: these public domain sources don't have fancy covers, but they are FULL of stories: in this week's public domain books, there are over 250 stories dating back to the late 19th and early 20th century. You'll find the round-up for the week below, and you can see previous round-ups month by month with these links: May - June - July - August - September - October - November.

As part of this public project, I'm also creating links story by story, so for each of the books below, you'll see a table of contents in the post that gives you one-click access to the story at Internet Archive. That means you can browse through the story titles for each book, and when you see something that intrigues you, you can just click-and-read. Since these stories are public domain, no log-in is required; the books are always available to everyone!

 Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria, West Africa

by Elphinstone Dayrell

Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky:

An African Folktale

by Blair Lent

The Story of Thunder and Lightning

by Ashley Bryan

Ikom Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria

by Elphinstone Dayrell

Negro Culture in West Africa

by George Washington Ellis

Missionary Story Sketches

and Folklore from Africa

by Alexander Priestley Camphor

Bulu Folk-Tales

by George Schwab

Bulu Tales from Kamerun, West Africa

by Adolph Krug

Bulu Tales

by Adolph Krug

African Folktales at Internet Archive: Week 25

It's time for the Week 25 round-up already, and for the month of November, I'm focusing on public domain books in conjunction with an African folktale anthology that I'm preparing as a #NaNoWriMo project (I'm not a novelist, but I love the synergy of participating in National Novel Writing Month). You can see how that project is going here: PublicDomain.LauraGibbs.net

Meanwhile, here's the round-up for last week, and you can see the round-ups for prior months with these links: May - June - July - August - September - October.

And here are last week's books... which includes a book I just published and which of course I also deposited at Internet Archive! :-)

Tiny Tales from Africa: The Animals

by Laura Gibbs

(yes, that's me, ha ha)

Stories Told in an African Forest 

by A. J. Mounteney Jephson

Where Animals Talk:

West African Folklore Tales

by Robert Nassau

Tales and Proverbs of the Vandau

of Portuguese South Africa

by Franz Boas and C. Kamba Simango

Black Tales for White Children

by C. N. Stigand and Nancy Stigand

Foundations in Southern African

Oral Literature

edited by Russell H. Kaschula

The Ila-Speaking Peoples

of Northern Rhodesia

by Edwin Smith

and Andrew Murray Dale