A Customized Version of Harold Scheub's "The African Storyteller"
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 228
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A Customized Version of Harold Scheub’s “The African Storyteller,” is collection of oral stories from Africa, drawn from sources representing 250 years of history and almost 12 million square miles of geography, has been studied by thousands of people. It may very well be the most widely shared repertoire of African oral traditions outside of the continent.
Map of Africa
The Art of the Storyteller
The Language of Storytelling
The Unborn Child
Salamone the Orphan
The Head of a Masai Woman
The Python’s Shining Stone
Rites of Passage
Notes on the Rites of Passage
The Two Brothers
The Two Hammadis
Lion-child and Cow-child
The Romance of the Fox
Mrile
Myth
Notes on Myth
The Parting of the Waters
|kággen Creates an Eland
God Creates Man and Woman
Isis and Osiris
How Death Came into the World: Five Myths
The Creation
Tricksters
Notes on the Trickster
Abunawas and the Goat’s Horns
Beiho Tricks His Uncles
Two Tar Baby Stories
Turning the Tables on Trickster
Mohammed with the Magic Finger
The Magic Drum
The Hero
Notes on the Hero
Sudika-mbambi
Ibonia
Nyikang and the Sun
Liongo
Rites of Passage and Gender
Notes on Rites of Passage and Gender
The Pregnant Boy
The Girl with One Hand
The Girl without Legs
Thakane and Her Father
Umxakaza-wakogingqwayo
Ngomba’s Basket
Ramaitsoanala
Yarima, Atafa, and the King
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