The best of African folklore

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Title:

The best of African folklore

Author:

Savory, Phyllis.

ISBN:

9780869784761

Personal Author:

Savory, Phyllis.

Publication Information:

Cape Town : Struik Timmins, 1991.

Physical Description:

111 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Contents:

Jabulani and the lion -- Lungile and the bewitched buck -- Montuai and the hyeena -- White Dove -- Lion's pool -- Tortoise and the birds -- Half child -- Unusha Mwaice the little slave girl -- Magic anthill -- Song of the golden birds -- "Look N'gai, no fishes!" -- Wizard's bride -- Kimwaki and the weaver birds -- Bush-buck's house -- chameleon's fall from grace -- How the ostrich got his ling neck -- Hyena and the calf -- Wanjohi and the bird -- "Cook, eat and carry me" -- King lion and king eagle -- Four friends -- Sankatane -- Lifting of the curse -- Seeteetelane and the egg-child -- Thakane -- Hoatiti and the goat thieves -- Story of fudwazana and gongongo -- Twins and the cannibal's feast -- Crow and the jackal -- Python's bride -- Rooster and the swift -- Punishment of the faithless one -- founding of a tribe -- Guardians of the dew pond -- Mischief maker -- Hare and the reedbuck -- Jackal builds a hut -- Wicked cannibal -- Nabulela.

Subject Term:

Folklore -- Africa.

Tales -- Africa.

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Summary

Africa has a wonderfully rich store of folk tales that have been passed down from one generation to the next. There are stories about how the world came into being, stories that tell of the relationships between human beings and between man and his environment, and of the lessons to be learned from everyday experience. The tales are like the fairy tales told all over the world, but they have a strong African flavour that is as real as the smell of rain on the hot earth. These tales take the reader into an enchanted world where animals can talk and humans are often changed into different forms, magic is commonplace and reality is turned delightfully on its head. Despite numerous setbacks, things usually turn out all right in the end. Wicked and greedy people (and animals) come off worst and the good receive their just rewards. The gods are stern but fair, and every story has a moral for those who are wise enough to see it.