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Black Folk Tales
This book contains 13 Hausa folktales from Nigeria as retold and also illustrated by Erick Berry, the pen name of Evangel Alenna Champlin wh…
African Jungle Tales
Carl Bender [1869-1935] was a German-born American missionary in Cameroon. During his years in Africa, he collected folktales which he later…
South African Folk-Tales
James Albert Honeij (Honey) has collected a variety of South African folktales from previously published sources in English translation, to …
Black Tales for White Children
Chauncey Hugh Stigand wrote this book of 29 East African folktales together with his wife, Nancy Stigand. Stigard was an officer in the Brit…
Animal Fables from the Dark Continent
A. O. Stafford, an African American educator and folklorist, wrote this collection of African and African Diaspora folktales for students in…
Ikom Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria
Elphinstone Daryell [1869-1917] was a British colonial administrator in southern Nigeria who had an interest in anthropology and folklore. T…
The Flame Tree and Other Folk-Lore Stories from Uganda
Rosetta Baskerville was the wife of George Baskerville, a missionary in Uganda. Some of the folktales in this book, published in 1925, are s…
Where Animals Talk: West African Folk Lore Tales
Robert Nassau spent four decades as a medical missionary in Africa, arriving at Corisco Island, now part of Equatorial Guinea, in 1861; he a…
The King of the Snakes and Other Folklore Stories from Uganda
Rosetta Baskerville was the wife of George Baskerville, a missionary in Uganda. Some of the folktales in this book, published in 1922, are s…