Download or read book Stories from Abakwa written by Francis B. Nyamnjoh and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2007 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Childhood and growing up in Mimboland, Cameroon are infused with fascinating stories and adventures. Discover life in Abakwa with Tom and his friend, as they are chased through an orchard for secretly harvesting avocados and mangoes. Smile as Mathias Chi's overloaded canoe almost loses balance. Shiver as Roland runs through the dark streets and bleeding corridors of Mvog Mvog. And cry when Big Brother discovers how his siblings suffered when he was away at school. What happens to Esther when she finds the courage to make an announcement at the Abakwa Mountain Foot Radio Station about her husband's disappearance? Will Prudencia and Collette kill or give life? How does Prisca Lum deal with her dwarf husband? Some characters will remind you of people you know--or even of yourself. Drum beats and church bells, thunder and lightning, princes and princesses, visions and deceptions fill the pages. Discover your favorite stories waiting to be told and retold, again and again.
Download or read book A Ripple from Abakwa written by Mwalimu Johnnie MacViban and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Anansi and the Box of Stories written by and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long ago in Africa, the sky god Nyame keeps all of the stories to himself, but when Anansi the spider asks their price, Nyame agrees to trade his stories if Anansi can perform four seemingly impossible tasks.
Download or read book African Tales written by Gcina Mhlophe and published by Barefoot Books. This book was released on 2019-09-01 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book African Folk Tales written by Hugh Vernon-Jackson and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1999-01-08 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents eighteen traditional tales from West Africa, including "The Tortoise and the Leopard, " "The Story of Muhammadu, " and "The Magic Crocodile."
Download or read book Tales of Temba written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 12 African Children s Tales written by James Addai and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author James Addai was born in Accra, Ghana, West Africa. He grew up in a big city, but spent some time in a small town in the country where he heard all kinds of children’s stories. There were stories of happiness, sadness, bravery, courage, cowardice, ambition, discipline, mystery, truth, lies, revenge and forgiveness. Adults told these stories to children to educate and entertain them. The author was curious about small towns and villages and their different values. The wide open fields, big and small farms, thick forests and jungles filled with wildlife, exotic plants, mysterious cultures, were all there to be explored. The author has showcased all of that in this book.
Download or read book Yam Stories Your Magical African Stories written by Ami Taal and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: YAM (Your African Magical ) Stories, is a collection of short stories set in and around the continent of Africa. Curated and composed by Ami Taal, these tales will capture your imagination and take you on an incredible journey across Africa. In Mama's Magical Enkicha, we are taken on a magical trip around the continent as our heroine is transported to different locations through the power and affinity of a mother's love. The Wisdom of Virtue is a fantastic tale of the power of kindness over cruelty, and the importance of forgiveness. Lioness Mountain describes how courage, bravery and intelligence are sometimes better than brute force and strength, while also giving a fictionalized account of the origin of a wonderful west African country! Princess Zam-Zam is a great Afrocentric take on the classic fairy-tale trope of a princess seeking her "knight in shining armour", while The Perils of Ambition highlights the dangers of getting caught up in chasing a dream and forgetting where you come from. Yamlins is a fabulous tale of exotic, mythical creatures that terrorize a village until the kind nature of one family's patriarch is tested to the limit. The tale's hero battles with his morals and almost crosses the line in order to protect his loved ones and the village. Ultimately, it's a tale that shows that sometimes intentions can be stronger than actions ever could be. The Fox and The Turtle is another classic fairy-tale trope given a new Afrocentric spin. It's a cautionary tale about the dangers of blind desire, and how forgetting to be polite and kind in the quest for success or achieving one's goals could lead to one's demise! This special edition of YAM Stories contains an additional eleven stories based on international fables! Abdulai and the Butterfly, depicting struggles; The Elephant, The Rope and Faith, belief; Eyes, change; Bandile's Anger, control your anger; The Golden Box Story, opportunity; A Pound of Butter, honesty; An Army of Frogs, encouragement; Outside of the Box, creative thinking; The King and Boulder, love; Puppies are for sale, understanding; and last but not least, Lalibela and the Falcons, Independence. Ami Taal has curated and updated these open copyright classics, reconstructing them from an Afrocentric perspective, adding her own unique take for your reading pleasure. These stories will not only enlighten you morally, but extend the magical journey Ami takes you on!
Download or read book Tale of an African Woman written by Thomas Jing and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2007 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The village of Yakiri has been cursed by ancestral wrath because of the treatment of Yaa, the first girl who wrestled her male goatherd peers to earn the right to be initiated into the society of manhood. Her struggle is taken up generations later by Yaya, the granddaughter of Tafan and Wirba. Orphaned like her forebear, Yaya becomes a star student in the village's primary school and promises to go far. But, ask the villagers, is it right to invest in an education for an African girl who may become the property of another village? An educated woman will abandon the farm where she is needed, wear high heels and try to order men around! In the midst of it all, one Irish missionary, living in Africa and for the most time with Africans, literally wiggles his way into hearts and minds. With his intervention, Yaya leaves the village to school in the city, but her troubles as a woman have not really begun. Yarns of cultural borrowing, indigestion and transcendence reveal the simple and complex ways in which community matters are confronted and decided. This happens in shrines where seers are consulted and cowry shells thrown, in palm wine houses, but also around the school and presbytery. The untold stories and perspectives of girls and women burst through in illuminating and uplifting ways. Quarrels, squabbles, near collisions and mutual conversions give way to innovative traditions.
Download or read book The Orphan Girl and Other Stories written by and published by Interlink Books. This book was released on 2001-07 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Orphan Girl includes a fascinating introduction exploring the roots of the storytelling tradition in the history and culture of West Africa. Each country is represented by several stories, a map and brief information. To compile these tales, Kent State professor and storyteller Buchi Offodile searched villages for elders who remembered the old stories. These 41 tales are culled from a lifetime of listening, reading, and researching.
Download or read book Takumbeng and Other Poems from Abakwa written by Vakunta, Peter Wuteh and published by Langaa RPCIG. This book was released on 2015-08-09 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takumbeng and Other Poems from Abakwa is a tribute to the Takumbeng in Cameroon. This collection of poems celebrates the prowess of the Takembeng, a militant female secret society in the Northwest Region of Cameroon. The poems address human rights violations, rape of democracy, misgovernment, and other forms of societal ills that plague post-colonial Cameroon. It is written in impeccable Standard English. The strength of the book resides in the vastness of the thematic terrain broached.
Download or read book Poems from Abakwa in Cameroon Pidgin English written by Wuteh Vakunta and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems from Abakwa in Cameroon Pidgin English is one patriotic rage. An anthology of sorts, this book of poems contains wisdom, inspirational reflections and witticisms for all. Through apt descriptions, illustrations, dialogues, interrogations and incisive phraseology, Peter Wuteh Vakunta creates an effective balance of colorful images that traces and documents disturbing accounts and evidences of corruption, greed, skewed values and life experiences that have assaulted his fatherland, betrayed political leaders and institutions, court judges, and parliamentarians as the police-cum-military continue to put their ambitions above the countrys needs while forsaking future leaderschildren. Vakunta describes how civil servants represent selfish interests and aspirations. Judges are intimidated as the nations laws continue to be transgressed. The police and military continue to abuse the trust invested in them by civilians and misdirect their patriotism while virtually the entire nation continues to live shaky lives with a punctured integrity. Vakunta does this in popular lingos commonly used by musicians, business folks, and the common man under several labelspidgin English, Camfranglais, Cam-tok, Camspeak, Majunga tok Dr. Fidelis Achenjang, Union College, USA
Download or read book The African Story Book and Folklores for Children written by Gideon C Mekwunye and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-08-29 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tales from Africa written by K.P. Kojo and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2017-08-03 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TALES FROM AFRICA is a collection of folktales brought to life with humour and poetry by Ghanaian author, K. P. Kojo. Find out how selfish Lion gets his comeuppance, go to a Frog wedding in the Sky Kingdom, discover the days when the earth's creatures were all mixed up and much more in these brilliantly crafted tales which reflect the very best - and the very worst - of human behaviours. Rich in the folklore of the many different countries of Africa, Ghanaian author, K. P. Kojo brings each story to life with humour and poetry, making them perfect for sharing and reading aloud to children of all ages. Includes endnotes with a glossary, additional information as well as ideas for activities that children can do to explore the stories further. 'Needs to be three times as long and sitting on a shelf in every school library' - Mark Haddon
Download or read book West African Folk Tales written by William Henry Barker and published by . This book was released on 2002-04-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Long Grass Whispers written by Geraldine Elliot and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Women who Ate Python and Other Stories written by Sammy Oke Akombi and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2008 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of six thought-provoking stories, four of which were award-winning-stories at the 1990 literary contest of the national Association of Cameroonian Poets and Writers (APEC). The stories are set in different localities in Africa and Cameroon in particular. The author in a lucid manner explores the theme of women lib- the African way in the lead story. Ebenye, the protagonist, representing the sharp-witted African woman cannot understand why she should cook food without tasting of it. So she decides to take the bold step of eating a piece of the python that she has been ordered to cook for the men of her community. The other stories tackle themes of corruption, poverty, alcoholism, endurance, love and more.
