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I Lost My Tooth in Africa
Author | : Penda Diakité |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : 0439662265 |
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Penda Diakité joins forces with her award-winning author/artist father to give a charming peek at everyday life in Africa. "This fact-based story of losing a tooth while visiting family in Mali rings with authenticity and good humour...[T]he illustrations exude happiness and togetherness." - The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
My Africa
Author | : Francis O'Hare |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1478758724 |
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My African Story. . . My Africa is the true story of a boy; a young man who persevered out of a poor and disadvantaged background with a lot of sickness throughout my formal elementary schooling years. Tuberculosis was diagnosed during my teenage time, along with a period in a sanatorium and yet I somehow survived to later enlist into the British Army Royal Engineers and into the school of engineering to qualify as a geodetic surveyor. Posted to East Africa with a new postwar aerial survey unit, map making in Africa for the first time in history-Life in Africa here begins.
African Tales
Author | : Gcina Mhlophe |
Publsiher | : Barefoot Books |
Total Pages | : 99 |
Release | : 2019-09-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781782854449 |
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This anthology includes eight traditional tales from all over Africa. Sumptuous hand-sewn collage artwork decorated with African beads adorns these unforgettable tales of bravery, wisdom, wit and heroic deeds
African Folk Tales
Author | : Hugh Vernon-Jackson |
Publsiher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2012-02-29 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780486110028 |
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Entertaining stories handed down from generation to generation among tribal cultures include "The Magic Crocodile," "The Hare and the Crownbird," "The Boy in the Drum," 15 others. 19 illustrations.
Africa s Greatest Entrepreneurs
Author | : Moky Makura |
Publsiher | : Penguin Random House South Africa |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2012-09-19 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780143027362 |
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I really hope that this book inspires many more people to use their entrepreneurial energy to change the world through creating opportunities for others.'
The Annotated African American Folktales The Annotated Books
Author | : Henry Louis Gates Jr.,Maria Tatar |
Publsiher | : Liveright Publishing |
Total Pages | : 1022 |
Release | : 2017-11-14 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780871407566 |
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Winner • NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Fiction) Winner • Anne Izard Storytellers’ Choice Award Holiday Gift Guide Selection • Indiewire, San Francisco Chronicle, and Minneapolis Star-Tribune These nearly 150 African American folktales animate our past and reclaim a lost cultural legacy to redefine American literature. Drawing from the great folklorists of the past while expanding African American lore with dozens of tales rarely seen before, The Annotated African American Folktales revolutionizes the canon like no other volume. Following in the tradition of such classics as Arthur Huff Fauset’s “Negro Folk Tales from the South” (1927), Zora Neale Hurston’s Mules and Men (1935), and Virginia Hamilton’s The People Could Fly (1985), acclaimed scholars Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Maria Tatar assemble a groundbreaking collection of folktales, myths, and legends that revitalizes a vibrant African American past to produce the most comprehensive and ambitious collection of African American folktales ever published in American literary history. Arguing for the value of these deceptively simple stories as part of a sophisticated, complex, and heterogeneous cultural heritage, Gates and Tatar show how these remarkable stories deserve a place alongside the classic works of African American literature, and American literature more broadly. Opening with two introductory essays and twenty seminal African tales as historical background, Gates and Tatar present nearly 150 African American stories, among them familiar Brer Rabbit classics, but also stories like “The Talking Skull” and “Witches Who Ride,” as well as out-of-print tales from the 1890s’ Southern Workman. Beginning with the figure of Anansi, the African trickster, master of improvisation—a spider who plots and weaves in scandalous ways—The Annotated African American Folktales then goes on to draw Caribbean and Creole tales into the orbit of the folkloric canon. It retrieves stories not seen since the Harlem Renaissance and brings back archival tales of “Negro folklore” that Booker T. Washington proclaimed had emanated from a “grapevine” that existed even before the American Revolution, stories brought over by slaves who had survived the Middle Passage. Furthermore, Gates and Tatar’s volume not only defines a new canon but reveals how these folktales were hijacked and misappropriated in previous incarnations, egregiously by Joel Chandler Harris, a Southern newspaperman, as well as by Walt Disney, who cannibalized and capitalized on Harris’s volumes by creating cartoon characters drawn from this African American lore. Presenting these tales with illuminating annotations and hundreds of revelatory illustrations, The Annotated African American Folktales reminds us that stories not only move, entertain, and instruct but, more fundamentally, inspire and keep hope alive. The Annotated African American Folktales includes: Introductory essays, nearly 150 African American stories, and 20 seminal African tales as historical background The familiar Brer Rabbit classics, as well as news-making vernacular tales from the 1890s’ Southern Workman An entire section of Caribbean and Latin American folktales that finally become incorporated into the canon Approximately 200 full-color, museum-quality images
African Folktales from My Childhood
Author | : Alieh Kimbeng |
Publsiher | : Balboa Press |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 2021-03-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781982263874 |
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Oral history is a key part of West African oral tradition used to pass down values and traditions from one generation to the next. Folktales are part of African oral history and are usually filled with wisdom, which convey a moral or teach a lesson. As a child, Alieh's Father usually told them stories. Storytelling was a part of their family, and these stories had been passed down from one generation to the next. Some of these stories were used by Alieh's father to teach her and her siblings a lesson. As Alieh grew older, she realized that she could not remember most of these stories, and this oral tradition was being lost, so she decided to capture them. This book is a collection of stories that have been passed down from one generation to the next but have never been written down or visually represented. The name "Tales from my Childhood" represents stories from everyone's childhood regardless of their age. Through this book, Alieh hopes to bring back storytelling to families.
African Folktales
Author | : Roger Abrahams |
Publsiher | : Pantheon |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2011-08-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780307803191 |
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The deep forest and broad savannah, the campsites, kraals, and villages—from this immense area south of the Sahara Desert the distinguished American folklorist Roger D. Abrahams has selected ninety-five tales that suggest both the diversity and the interconnectedness of the people who live there. The storytellers weave imaginative myths of creation and tales of epic deeds, chilling ghost stories, and ribald tales of mischief and magic in the animal and human realms. Abrahams renders these stories in a narrative voice that reverberates with the rhythms of tribal song and dance and the emotional language of universal concerns. With black-and-white drawings throughout Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library