Download or read book Moonlight Stories from West Africa written by Michael O. Ojewale and published by Sunday Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. Oni, a seventy-eight-year-old retired schoolteacher, is a naturalized American citizen. He spends his retirement by volunteering in elementary schools and telling folk tales from the Yoruba community. In Yoruba culture, adults tell folk tales to young people, especially during the full moon. Under moonlight, adults and children sit in open village squares and tell stories. The high point of the storytelling is when the storyteller and listeners reason together to find some lessons from the stories. This is the informal way that morals, principles, and life lessons are passed down and learned. The Tortoise is a prominent character in Yoruba folk tales. The Tortoise is almost always portrayed as a trickster, a phony, or a dubious personality. Mr. Oni tells these Tortoise stories so that the youngsters can learn true character and good habits. If the kids can learn from the mistakes of any of the characters, it might prevent them from making those mistakes themselves. Peer pressure, bullying, anger management, risk taking, humility, individuality, self-control, respect, intuition, and such themes are covered without necessarily using those terms.
Download or read book Moonlight Stories from West Africa 2nd Edition written by Michael Ojewale and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Yoruba culture, adults tell folk tales to young people, especially during the full moon. Under moonlight, adults and children sit in open village squares and tell stories. The high point of the storytelling is when the storyteller and listeners reason together to find some lessons from the stories. This is the informal way that morals, principles, and life lessons are passed down and learned.The Tortoise is a prominent character in Yoruba folk tales. The Tortoise is almost always portrayed as a trickster, a phony, or a dubious personality. Mr. Oni tells these Tortoise stories so that the youngsters can learn true character and good habits. If the kids can learn from the mistakes of any of the characters, it might prevent them from making those mistakes themselves.Peer pressure, bullying, anger management, risk taking, humility, individuality, self-control, respect, intuition, and such themes are covered without necessarily using those terms. The Moonlight Stories from West Africa is helpful for teaching and learning social skills and important life lessons through storytelling, without reference to any religion.Each chapter in the book is enriched with review questions/checking comprehension and different graphic organizers for students¿ activities, such as, character evaluating worksheet, character analysis web, attribute and legacy web and story worm graphic organizer for sequencing. Mr. Oni is a retired schoolteacher who spends his retirement as a volunteer storyteller in schools. He is a naturalized US citizen but was born and bred in Nigeria, West Africa. On Wednesday mornings every week for sixteen weeks, Mr. Oni visits PS 001 during second period. He goes to Room 302, Ms. Tom¿s class, where the third grade students are waiting for him. Mr. Oni tells the Tortoise stories he remembers from his childhood in Africa in Ms. Tom¿s class. For the storytelling sessions, Mr. Oni sits in Ms. Tom¿s rocking chair while the students sit on the rug at the back of the room¿.After each story, Mr. Oni tells the students to look for at least three important lessons from each story, one of which will be the main lesson.
Download or read book African Moonlight Stories written by Ayodapo Ayansiji Oyelana and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Storytelling is one of the intrinsic components of many African cultures. Folktales are told not only for fun and amusement, but also to educate and teach values and morals in society. On nights when it is clear and there is good moonlight, the storytelling sessions may be prolonged and last well into the early hours of morning. The stories are often based upon various animal characters. In such, the animal character in question will assume multiple character traits of both animal and human. Animal characters frequently are wise, honest, cunning, treacherous, or foolish and behave in a manner consistent with human personalities. Among the Yoruba people of West Africa, many of their fables feature the tortoise whose full name is Ijapa ti roko oko Yannibo, or Ijapa for short. He is a master trickster, wise and very cunning. In most of his stories, Ijapa uses his tricks to get out of any predicament in which he might find himself. However, he is often not on the lucky side of the outcome. It is not unusual to find Ijapa dead at the end of a given story. Storytelling in the Yoruba culture is a participatory activity involving both the storyteller and the listeners. In fact, typically, the opening of any story is in the form of a call and response: The advent of technology has affected the storytelling culture of many Africans. People living in urban areas rarely visit rural villages and are frequently entertained by technological inventions like television and video games. The stories are accompanied by songs, which add dimension to the telling and are often central to the story's plot. There are some questions at the end of each of the stories from "the storyteller" that will help to stimulate discussion between the storyteller and the audience. Download the audio tracks of the presented folksongs in the stories from www.iyailu.com.
Download or read book African Moonlight Folktale written by Osedebamen Oamen and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Moonlight Stories written by Remi Adedeji and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 1999-04-01 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remi Adedeji is an esteemed Nigerian children's writer, and associate editor for Bookbird in Nigeria. She started writing story books for African children when she discovered that the only books available to African children were alien to African culture. Many of her stories are Nigerian folktales in which the tortoise features prominently; this new title in the Heinemann Frontline series is no exception. The volume contains ten short stories based upon ancient folk tales.The reader will learn how the oil palm got its nuts; why the vulture has no hair on his head; why the tortoise's back is cracked; and how the tortoise married the king's daughter.
Download or read book AFRICAN STORIES BY MOONLIGHT written by Celestine E. Ebegbulem and published by Author House. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to African Stories by Moonlight. The most memorable evenings I had as a child were those in which, together with other children, I listened to adults tell us stories which were often accompanied with rhythmic and delightful songs. When I started raising my own family in the city, my children looked forward to those nights when we would regale them with those stories and songs. I noticed then that many urban children were not exposed to these stories, as they were no longer in the environment in which they were told. It was after I did some studies on Indigenous African Education as a Visiting Scholar in the African Studies Center at UCLA, that I realized the molding influence of these stories on our character. Storytelling, of course, was a basic ingredient for traditional African education. I have therefore decided to share some of these stories with those children of African descent who are now away from the environment where they are told. Children and adults of other cultures will enjoy these stories, and learn from the wisdom embedded in them. The enthusiastic reception given to them by the multicultural classes to which I read them in the Long Beach Unified School District in California, further encouraged me to seek to publish them. I have written ten short stories in a language suitable for school readers, and a wider audience. If these stories help to revive storytelling in homes and communities, one objective for writing this book shall have been achieved. For the benefit of teachers who want to use the book to teach English, social studies, or multicultural studies, and for the benefit of families who would like to use the book for entertainment and learning, comprehension questions and answers have been prepared on each of the stories. These are available from [email protected]
Download or read book Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky written by Elphinstone Dayrell and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1968 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sun and Moon must leave their earthly home after Sun invites the Sea to visit.
Download or read book 25 African Fables and Moonlight Stories written by Femi Akomolafe and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tales from West Africa written by and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively collection comes from West Africa, a place 'where stories grow on trees'. Here are the famous tricksters: Hare, Tortoise, and the greatest of them all - Ananse the spider. The stories are full of larger-than-life characters and situations; and include the tale of how Ananse got his thin waist, how Crocodile learnt his lesson, and how Monkey managed not to get eaten by Shark.
Download or read book Kabu Kabu African Classics written by The Venerable (Prof.) Sydney C. Ugwunna, M.A., M.Div., Ph.D. and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kabu Kabu (African Classics) By: The Venerable (Prof.) Sydney C. Ugwunna, M.A., M.Div., Ph.D Kabu Kabu (African Classics) is a collection of folktales from Africa, designed to teach children—and adults!—of all ages not only the moral lessons handed down from generation to generation by African elders, but about beautiful African culture in itself. Within these pages, children will learn both a bit of science and theology, as well as valuable philosophical lessons crucial to their development as upstanding people of the world. Young readers (as well as older readers) can also relax and enjoy love stories in typical pure romantic and delicate African style.
Download or read book 18 African Fables Moonlight Stories written by Femi Akomolafe, Mr. and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 18 African Fables and Moonlight Stories.
Download or read book African Stories by Moonlight written by Celestine Ebegbulem and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Worst Devil on Stage and Other Stories written by Clement Chukwuka Idegwu and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mantis and the Moon written by Marguerite Poland and published by Raven Press (South Africa). This book was released on 1979 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wooden Gongs and Drumbeats II written by Chris Dahi and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wooden Gongs and Drumbeats African Moonlight night folk tales, Proverbs and Idioms This is a collection of African traditional moonlight night stories. After the day's work in a typical African homestead, we gather in the centre of the compound under the full moon and the old one will tell us stories of the lion, the tortoise and other animals, tales of valiant and heroic acts and tales of failures and mischief. These stories are divided into moral stories, how and why stories and spiced with deep African proverbs, idioms and wise sayings.
Download or read book African Tales by Moonlight written by Chidi Charles and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Why Sun and Moon Live in the Sky written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
