Showing posts with label 2022 June. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2022 June. Show all posts

Sunday, June 26, 2022

Diaspora Folktales at Internet Archive: Week 18

I sure got busy at the end of this week and missed a couple of posts, but there were still lots of good books this week, and you can also access previous weekly round-up posts too, going back to the very beginning: May 2021 - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - January 2022 - February - March - April - May - June.

And don't forget about our ongoing Anansi Book Club reading children's books with stories from Africa; this week we are reading a fabulous book by South African storyteller, Gcina Mhlophe: Stories of Africa.

So, without further ado, here are this week's books:


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Sunday, June 19, 2022

Diaspora Folktales at Internet Archive: Week 17

Another blazing hot weekend here, so I stayed home and got lots of work done on another of my projects (Latin and Spanish proverbs, with help from Hector Tapia), and now I'm doing the week's round-up here. You can browse all the past round-up posts too, going back to the very beginning: May 2021 - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - January 2022 - February - March - April - May - June.

And don't forget about our ongoing Anansi Book Club reading children's books with stories from Africa; this week we are reading the delightful Talking Vegetables by Won-Ldy Paye.

So, without further ado, here are this week's books:


by G. Llewellyn Watson



by Edna Bennett



by Izett Anderson and Frank Cundall



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Saturday, June 11, 2022

Diaspora Folktales at Internet Archive: Week 16

I hope everybody is having a good weekend! It's blazing hot here (predicted 105 today, 107 tomorrow)... and the air conditioning has gone out in my building. Argh! So I'm going to just sit next to a fan and read...... and of course there is always lots to read. And if you are looking for African and African Diaspora books to read at the Internet Archive, here are hundreds of them; these links will take you to all the round-up posts, starting back at the very beginning: May 2021 - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - January 2022 - February - March - April - May - June.

And don't forget about our ongoing Anansi Book Club reading children's books with stories from Africa; this week we are reading Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters by John Steptoe.

So, without further ado, here are this week's books:


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Saturday, June 4, 2022

Diaspora Folktales at Internet Archive: Week 15

So here, it is: the first round-up for June 2022! Meanwhile, these links will take you to all the round-up posts, starting back at the very beginning: May 2021 - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - January 2022 - February - March - April - May.

The focus this week was children's books! And don't forget about our ongoing Anansi Book Club reading children's books with stories from Africa; this week we are reading The Village of Round and Square Houses.



I also blogged about this book of African folktales in conjunction with Helen Nde's Twitter Spaces on Friday. :-)





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