Download or read book Africa Fact fiction or fable written by Rob Marsh and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa: fact, fiction or fable takes a look at the unique things, places, people and even animals in Africa. This truly interesting and factual book in encyclopedic format will appeal to both the general and academic market.
Download or read book The Hare and Baboon and Other Stories written by Kandie Oriade and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hare and Baboon and other Stories is a collection of 7 fables from 7 different countries on the African continent: Nigeria, Togo, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Angola, Cameroon, and Cote d'Ivoire. These tales are filled with the warmth of Africa and offer a glimpse into the cultures they are set in. They are filled with talking animals and adventurous quests. They generally include morals that teach us to be better people. Among other things, the stories explain how the tortoise's shell became cracked, and how fire came to earth. Each story is accompanied by an original illustration painted by the artist Thamba Tabvuma.
Download or read book African Folktales Fables and Legends written by Allahya Kwada and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-02-03 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Maasai and luhya tribe of Kenya to the Yoruba and kamwe people of Northern Nigeria, Zimbabwe and South Africa. This book combines different African flavours , which comprises of folktales, fables, legends and other African adventures told from the old.
Download or read book Imagine Africa written by Mia Couto and published by Archipelago. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine Africa and its theme of "Revolution" is introduced by Georges Lory who opens the collection with his essay, "Poets to your quills, Africa is taking off". Through a collage of poems, essays, fiction, and visual art, Imagine Africa gives us a glimpse of a kaleidoscopic contemporary Africa.
Download or read book Fable Nation written by Joy Kita and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book People Could Fly American Black Folktales written by Virginia Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retold Afro-American folktales of animals, fantasy, the supernatural, and desire for freedom, born of the sorrow of the slaves, but passed on in hope.
Download or read book Reading Africa into American Literature written by Keith Cartwright and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The literature often considered the most American is rooted not only in European and Western culture but also in African and American Creole cultures. Keith Cartwright places the literary texts of such noted authors as George Washington Cable, W.E.B. DuBois, Alex Haley, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, William Faulkner, Joel Chandler Harris, Herman Melville, Toni Morrison, and many others in the context of the history, spiritual traditions, folklore, music, linguistics, and politics out of which they were written. Cartwright grounds his study of American writings in texts from the Senegambian/Old Mali region of Africa. Reading epics, fables, and gothic tales from the crossroads of this region and the American South, he reveals that America's foundational African presence, along with a complex set of reactions to it, is an integral but unacknowledged source of the national culture, identity, and literature.
Download or read book East African When Stories written by Pamela Kola and published by East African Publishers. This book was released on 1991 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The East African Publishing House published three classic books in the 1960s on the origins of certain events among people and in the animal kingdom. The books have been long out-of-print and are now available again in re-issues by Heinemann Kenya. The stories are oral tales handed down the generations by the people living near Lake Victoria. In this first of the series, the four stories are 'How the Goat Became our Friend'; 'How the Hawk and the Crow Came to Hate Each Other'; 'How the Beans Came to Have a Black Sport on Them'; and 'How the Leopard Got His Spots', and 'How the Hyena Got an Ugly Coat'. Each story is illustrated with adrawing.
Download or read book Fables from South Africa written by Samuel Denhartog and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2024-08-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fables from South Africa" invites readers into a world where animals and humans alike navigate treacherous landscapes with wit, courage, and determination. In these tales, the clever Jackal often outsmarts predators much stronger than himself, while the cunning Hare finds ways to triumph over seemingly insurmountable odds. The timeless lessons woven into these stories remind us that intelligence and resourcefulness can prevail over brute strength. But not all the dangers in these tales come from the animal kingdom. Readers will also encounter the darker side of folklore, where cannibals lurk in the shadows, driven by hunger and fear. From a mother's desperate search for her lost daughter, taken by birds to a land of cannibals, to the tale of a boy with an iron side who defies the odds to rescue his sister from a deadly fate, these stories reveal the perilous world that lies beyond the familiar safety of home. Each story in this collection is a doorway into the rich cultural heritage of South Africa, offering a blend of wisdom, adventure, and moral lessons that resonate across generations. Whether it's the Jackal's clever schemes or the heroic efforts of siblings to reunite against all odds, these tales are sure to captivate and inspire readers of all ages.
Download or read book Anansi Brings Stories to the World written by Dynast Amir and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anansi brings stories to the world is a compilation of children's stories that originate from West Africa. The book is centered around Anansi the Spider who is considered by many to be the God of all knowledge and creator of the world.
Download or read book African Fables written by Winifred Pearce and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a young woman in the 1920s, Winifred Pearce left the safety and comfort of her home in England to follow her husband to Rhodesia, the country now known as Zimbabwe. While Winifred's husband worked on the family's farm, she raised the couple's two young children. While Winifred was in Africa, an old Rhodesian man named M'Dala shared with her a handful of fables that had been passed down by word of mouth in his village. Winifred wrote down these stories and tucked them away for decades. Today, Winifred's daughter and great-granddaughters share these stories with young and old readers alike, pairing each fable alongside beautiful and original illustrations. The underlying themes of these simple stories tackle such universal topics as love and sacrifice, greed and suspicion, sickness, and questions of our origins and survival. Appealing to children and anyone interested in Africa, this collection is a valuable addition to any family's home library.
Download or read book Reynard the Fox in South Africa written by Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How the Leopard Got His Spots written by Rudyard Kipling and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates how the leopard got his spotted coat in order to hunt the animals in the dappled shadows of the forest.
Download or read book Reynard the Fox in South Africa Hottentot Fabels and Tales written by Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In inscribing to you this little book, I do no more than offer that which is your due, as its appearance is mainly owing to you. It was by your desire that I wrote, in 1861, to different Missionaries in South Africa, requesting them to make collections of Native Literature, similar in nature to those which, through your instrumentality, had been so abundantly rescued from oblivion in New Zealand. I then wrote, among others, to the Rev. G. Krönlein, Rhenish Missionary at Beerseba, Great Namaqualand; but it was not till after you had left us, on a new mission of honour and duty, that I received from him (at five different periods) the original manuscripts from which most of the Fables given here are translated. He sent us, altogether, twenty-four Fables, Tales, and Legends, besides twelve Songs of Praise, thirty-two Proverbs, and twelve Riddles; all in Hottentot (as taken down by him from the mouth of the Natives) and German, partly accompanied by explanatory notes, including fragments of the ǀNūsa1 Bushman language. Mr. Krönlein’s manuscripts fill sixty-five pages, mostly in quarto, with double columns. You are aware that the existence of Fables among the Hottentots was already known to us through Sir James Alexander’s “Expedition of Discovery into the Interior of Africa” (8vo., two vols., London, 1838), and that some interesting specimens of their literature had been given by him in that work; but that Fables form so extensive a mass of traditionary Native literature amongst the Namaqua, has first been brought to light by Mr. Krönlein’s communications. The fact of such a literary capacity existing among a nation whose mental qualifications it has been usual to estimate at the lowest standard, is of the greatest importance; and that their literary activity (in contradistinction to the general character of Native literature among Negro nations) has been employed almost in the same direction as that which had been taken by our own earliest literature, is in itself of great significance. Some questions of no trifling importance and interest are raised by the appearance of such an unlooked-for mine of literary lore, particularly as to the originality of these Fables. Whether they are indeed the real offspring of the desert, and can be considered as truly indigenous Native literature, or whether they have been either purloined from the superior white race, or at least brought into existence by the stimulus which contact with the latter gave to the Native mind (like that resulting in the invention of the Tshiroki and Vei alphabets) may be matters of dispute for some time to come, and it may require as much research as was expended upon the solving of the riddle of the originality of the Ossianic poems. But whatever may be the ultimate result of such inquiries, whether it will confirm our idea of the originality and antiquity of the main portion of these Hottentot Fables, and consequently stamp them with the character of the oldest and most primitive literary remains of the old mother tongue of the Sexdenoting nations, or whether they have only sprung up recently among the Hottentots from foreign seed—in either case the disposition of the Hottentots to the enjoyment of such Fables, and their easy growth on this arid soil, be it their native or adopted one—shows a much greater congeniality between the Hottentot and European mind than we find between the latter and any of the black races of Africa.
Download or read book The Shadow of the Sun written by Ryszard Kapuscinski and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving portrait of Africa from Poland's most celebrated foreign correspondent - a masterpiece from a modern master. Famous for being in the wrong places at just the right times, Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa in 1957, at the beginning of the end of colonial rule - the "sometimes dramatic and painful, sometimes enjoyable and jubilant" rebirth of a continent. The Shadow of the Sun sums up the author's experiences ("the record of a 40-year marriage") in this place that became the central obsession of his remarkable career. From the hopeful years of independence through the bloody disintegration of places like Nigeria, Rwanda and Angola, Kapuscinski recounts great social and political changes through the prism of the ordinary African. He examines the rough-and-ready physical world and identifies the true geography of Africa: a little-understood spiritual universe, an African way of being. He looks also at Africa in the wake of two epoch-making changes: the arrival of AIDS and the definitive departure of the white man. Kapuscinski's rare humanity invests his subjects with a grandeur and a dignity unmatched by any other writer on the Third World, and his unique ability to discern the universal in the particular has never been more powerfully displayed than in this work.
Download or read book Tales from East Africa written by Mary Malonza and published by . This book was released on 2011-12-17 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Centered in the heart of Inchi Fulani, a fictional place inhabited by animals, the flamboyant, fun loving characters of this cherished land find ways to outwit and trick each other as greed and personal circumstances push them to compete for survival and dominance.Who emerges winner when scheming Mamba the Crocodile tries to deceive Tumbili the Vervet Monkey to travel to the depths of the river? Can procrastination cost one a most prized item as Pimbi the Hyrax learns? What about greed and ingratitude? Does one always owe respect and gratitude to those that helped him or her? Just ask Kobe the Tortoise.Find out more about animal and in extension human relations in these captivating stories that not only build character, enhance relationships but also offer a few lessons on the consequences of poor judgement.
