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The Lion's Storyteller: An Introduction to Pan-African Folktales

The Lion's Storyteller: An Introduction to Pan-African Folktales

Author(s): Tarik Richardson

Edition: 1

Copyright: 2023

Pages: 173

Edition: 1

Copyright: 2023

Pages: 174

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"Until the Lion has his own storyteller, the story of the hunt will always glorify the hunter". 

The Lion's Storyteller offers a culturally grounded investigation into the African folkloric tradition. This text introduces readers to the tradition of African folklore, manifested in communities on the continent of Africa, as well as in the Diaspora. 

More than just a collection of stories, The Lion's Storyteller is a resource for the folklorist, and the Africologist, illuminating the historiography of African folklore, and investigating the methods of its study. Through the folklore of African peoples, we can begin to examine the philosophical foundations of African ethics. In this text, African folklore from ancient and classical periods all the way up to myth, legends, fables, and tall tales which are still being told in contemporary societies will be engaged and contextualized within their own cultural paradigm.

Foreword 

Chapter One: The Intellectual Traditions of Folkloric Studies
Chapter Two: Culture & Ethics Within African Folklore
Chapter Three: Forms of African Folklore 
   Anansi Owns All Stories 
   The Singing Drum and the Mysterious Pumpkin 
   The Story of the Eloquent Peasant 
Chapter Four: The Metaphysics of African Mythology 
   The Creation 
   God Moves to the Heavens 
Chapter Five: Animal Tales & Tricksters 
   The Shipwrecked Traveler 
   The Cunning Hare 
   The Wax Doll 
   The Wonderful Tar Baby Story 
   The Magic Drum 
   Fereyel and Debbo Engal the Witch 
Chapter Six: African Epics 
   The Epic of Fumo Liyongo 
   Sikhuluma, The Boy Who Did Not Speak 
   The John Henry Epic 
Chapter Seven: Memory & Cultural Mythology 

Tarik Richardson

Tarik A. Richardson holds a Ph.D. in Africology and African American Studies from Temple University. He is a professor of African-American and Diaspora Studies at Xavier University of Louisiana. His research focuses on the cultural history of East Africa, and the concept of cultural memory within the African Diaspora. He has also published several research articles on issues concerning African historiography and philosophy. In addition to his academic work, he is the incumbent Mid-Atlantic regional research chair for the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilization. 

"Until the Lion has his own storyteller, the story of the hunt will always glorify the hunter". 

The Lion's Storyteller offers a culturally grounded investigation into the African folkloric tradition. This text introduces readers to the tradition of African folklore, manifested in communities on the continent of Africa, as well as in the Diaspora. 

More than just a collection of stories, The Lion's Storyteller is a resource for the folklorist, and the Africologist, illuminating the historiography of African folklore, and investigating the methods of its study. Through the folklore of African peoples, we can begin to examine the philosophical foundations of African ethics. In this text, African folklore from ancient and classical periods all the way up to myth, legends, fables, and tall tales which are still being told in contemporary societies will be engaged and contextualized within their own cultural paradigm.

Foreword 

Chapter One: The Intellectual Traditions of Folkloric Studies
Chapter Two: Culture & Ethics Within African Folklore
Chapter Three: Forms of African Folklore 
   Anansi Owns All Stories 
   The Singing Drum and the Mysterious Pumpkin 
   The Story of the Eloquent Peasant 
Chapter Four: The Metaphysics of African Mythology 
   The Creation 
   God Moves to the Heavens 
Chapter Five: Animal Tales & Tricksters 
   The Shipwrecked Traveler 
   The Cunning Hare 
   The Wax Doll 
   The Wonderful Tar Baby Story 
   The Magic Drum 
   Fereyel and Debbo Engal the Witch 
Chapter Six: African Epics 
   The Epic of Fumo Liyongo 
   Sikhuluma, The Boy Who Did Not Speak 
   The John Henry Epic 
Chapter Seven: Memory & Cultural Mythology 

Tarik Richardson
Tarik Richardson

Tarik A. Richardson holds a Ph.D. in Africology and African American Studies from Temple University. He is a professor of African-American and Diaspora Studies at Xavier University of Louisiana. His research focuses on the cultural history of East Africa, and the concept of cultural memory within the African Diaspora. He has also published several research articles on issues concerning African historiography and philosophy. In addition to his academic work, he is the incumbent Mid-Atlantic regional research chair for the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilization.