Black Folk Tales


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This book contains 13 Hausa folktales from Nigeria as retold and also illustrated by Erick Berry, the pen name of Evangel Alenna Champlin who lived in West Africa in the 1920s. While in Africa, she met and married Oswald Best, who was an official in the British Civil Service. They later moved to the United States, and Erick Berry went on to become a well known children's book illustrator as well as an author. Both she and her husband wrote books about Africa; in addition to this book of African folktales, Berry is also the author of Girls in Africa, and she did the illustrations for her husband's book, Garram the Hunter: A Boy of the Hill Tribes, a novel also set in Nigeria.
- Summary by Laura Gibbs (0 hr 54 min)

Chapters

Foreword 2:43 Read by laurakgibbs
The Story of Solomon and the Birds 4:27 Read by laurakgibbs
The Town Where No One Slept 4:39 Read by laurakgibbs
The Spider and the Two Chiefs 6:49 Read by laurakgibbs
Why the Hartebeest Always Has Tears in His Eyes 2:51 Read by laurakgibbs
Why the Owl Flies Only at Night 2:02 Read by laurakgibbs
The Water of Ladi 5:04 Read by laurakgibbs
The Goat and the Hyena 2:57 Read by laurakgibbs
The Magpies and the Greedy Spider 2:47 Read by laurakgibbs
The Maiden and the Sarakin Pumpkin 3:23 Read by laurakgibbs
The Lion and the Squirrel 3:06 Read by laurakgibbs
Another Story of the Spider 5:28 Read by laurakgibbs
The Ram and the Youngest Son 7:01 Read by laurakgibbs
The Lazy Frog 1:40 Read by laurakgibbs