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