Download or read book Why The Tortoise Lives Under a Heap of Rubbish and Other Stories written by Okpame Oronsaye and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why The Tortoise Lives Under A Heap Of Rubbish In The Forest And Other Stories is a compilation of some fairytales of the Edo people, retold for children aged 8 to 10 years. The Edo people live in Nigeria, and their capital city is Benin City.
Download or read book A Life in Storytelling written by Binnie Tate Wilkin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Life in Storytelling contains the reflections and lessons from one of the most noted storytellers of our times. Fifty years of storytelling has provided Binnie Tate Wilkin with the experiences and insights to form the basis of a text for the storyteller, both for the professional librarian, teacher or parent wanting to provide children with substance through story. The sections of the book are designed to provide background material for the art and craft of storytelling, the methods and uses of storytelling, sources and examples of stories, and a broad selection of over 100 stories briefly annotated. Included are sections that explain how to derive or adapt stories from current events, history, or imaginative writings and a detailed treatment in the use of dance in storytelling, a technique that, if not invented by Wilkin, has become a trademark of her approach. The treatment is always informal and personal and is interleaved with anecdotes drawn from the author’s more than 50 years of storytelling.
Download or read book The Literary History of the Igbo Novel written by Ernest N. Emenyonu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-02-07 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at the trends in the development of the Igbo novel from its antecedents in oral performance, through the emergence of the first published novel, Omenuko, in 1933 by Pita Nwana, to the contemporary Igbo novel. Defining "Igbo literature" as literature in Igbo language, and "Igbo novel" as a novel written in Igbo language, the author argues that oral and written literature in African indigenous languages hold an important foundational position in the history of African literature. Focusing on the contributions of Igbo writers to the development of African literature in African languages, the book examines the evolution, themes, and distinctive features of the Igbo novel, the historical circumstances of the rise of the African novel in the pre-colonial, era and their impact on the contemporary Igbo novel. This book will be of interest to scholars of African literature, literary history, and Igbo studies.
Download or read book The Stories that go on and on written by Cooper & Moses and published by Primedia E-launch LLC. This book was released on with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifi, the hero of our story is an 8 year old boy that, like most children, loves story time. We meet Fifi getting ready for story time but huffing and puffing about sleeping in his parent’s room! His parent’s insist that he sleep in their room because Fifi sleepwalks, this way they can keep an eye on him in case he wanders off at night when he should be in bed. While waiting for his father to come up to tell him a story he falls asleep, and as often happens, Fifi begins to sleepwalk. He manages to slip out of the house without his parent’s knowledge and make his way down to the village/town centre. His parents discover Fifi is gone and begin to panic! They start looking everywhere for him.
Download or read book My Stunning Sense of Sight written by Fisayo Oludipe and published by 9ijakids. This book was released on with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One day while Chichi is in the garden she comes across something different. She goes to take a closer look and her sense of sight helps her learn something new
Download or read book Tales from Africa written by and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawn from all parts of Africa, these stories for children aged ten and over illustrate the fierce sense of justice inherent in African peoples, their powers of patience and endurance, and their supreme ability as story-tellers.
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Applied Performance written by Tim Prentki and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Applied Performance provides an in-depth, far-reaching and provocative consideration of how scholars and artists negotiate the theoretical, historical and practical politics of applied performance, both in the academy and beyond. These volumes offer insights from within and beyond the sphere of English-speaking scholarship, curated by regional experts in applied performance. The reader will gain an understanding of some of the dominant preoccupations of performance in specified regions, enhanced by contextual framing. From the dis(h)arming of the human body through dance in Colombia to clowning with dementia in Australia, via challenges to violent nationalism in the Balkans, transgender performance in Pakistan and resistance rap in Kashmir, the essays, interviews and scripts are eloquent testimony to the courage and hope of people who believe in the power of art to renew the human spirit. Students, academics, practitioners, policy-makers, cultural anthropologists and activists will benefit from the opportunities to forge new networks and develop in-depth comparative research offered by this bold, global project.
Download or read book The Magic Drum written by William Frederick Padwick Burton and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Leopard and the Galogalo written by Rotimi Ogunjobi and published by xceedia - tee publishing. This book was released on 2010-07-20 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Where Animals Talk West African Folk Lore Tales written by Robert Hamill Nassau and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the title suggests, this book is a collection of West African folktales. These tales are taken from the three tribes of the region: Mpongwe, Benga, and Fang. More than 50 titles can be found inside this book's pages, including the following: 'A Journey for Salt', 'Borrowed Clothes', and 'Tortoise Covers His Ignorance'.
Download or read book Listening written by Jonathan Cott and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging collection of interviews and profiles from twenty years of Jonathan Cott’s remarkable writings “All I really need to do is simply ask a question,” Jonathan Cott occasionally reminds himself. “And then listen.” It sounds simple, but in fact few have taken the art of asking questions to such heights—and depths—as Jonathan Cott, whom Jan Morris called “an incomparable interviewer,” one whose skill, according to the great interviewer and oral historian Studs Terkel, “is artless yet impassioned and knowing.” Collected here are twenty-two of Cott’s most illuminating interviews that encourage readers to listen to film directors and musicians, actors and writers, scientists and visionaries. These conversations affirm the indispensable and transformative powers of the imagination and offer us new ways to view these lives and their worlds. What is it like to be Bob Dylan making a movie? Carl Sagan taking on the cosmos? Oliver Sacks doctoring the soul? John Lennon, on December 5, 1980? Elizabeth Taylor, ever? From Chinua Achebe to Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel), Federico Fellini to Werner Herzog, and Oriana Fallaci to Studs Terkel, Listening takes readers on a journey to discover not ways of life but ways to life. Within these pages,Cott proves himself to be, in the words of Brain Pickings’s Maria Popova, “an interlocutor extraordinaire,” drawing candid insights and profound observations from these inspired and inspiring individuals.
Download or read book Ajapa the Tortoise written by Margaret Baumann and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-06-11 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before people could turn to books for instruction and amusement, they relied upon storytellers for answers to their questions about life. Africa boasts a particularly rich oral tradition, in which the griot — village historian — preserved and passed along cultural beliefs and experiences from one generation to the next. This collection of 30 timeless fables comes from the storytellers of Nigeria, whose memorable narratives tell of promises kept and broken, virtue rewarded, and treachery punished. Ajapa the Tortoise — a trickster, or animal with human qualities — makes frequent appearances among the colorful cast of talking animals. In "Tortoise Goes Wooing," he learns a valuable lesson in friendship and sharing. Ajapa's further adventures describe how, among other things, he became a chief, acquired all of the world's wisdom, saved the king, tricked the lion, and came to be bald. Recounted in simple but evocative language, these ancient tales continue to enchant readers and listeners of all ages.
Download or read book The Museum Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of Chibougwum written by S.O. Ogbonnaya and published by Phoenix Voices Publishing. This book was released on 2024-11-06 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chibuogwum, an intelligent boy with promising future, is admitted into a a prestigious boarding school for his secondary school education.He has three other sisters, but his mother rests her hope in him than in them. True to his grandfather's apprehension, Chibuogwum gets corrupted in the school by associating with a bad group in the school. Later, his father suddenly died in auto-crash, forcing him to leave the school and gets enrolled in a school he will be attending from home. Nevertheless, his waywardness keeps worsening. Will he later change and become a useful person. Find out in this enthralling and entertaining story.
Download or read book Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria West Africa written by Elphinstone Dayrell and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Meanings written by Harold Scheub and published by Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company. This book was released on 1994 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Selected Writings of Andrew Lang written by Tom Hubbard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novelist, poet, literary critic and anthropologist, Andrew Lang is best known for his publications on folklore, mythology and religion; many have grown up with the ‘colour’ Fairy Books which he compiled between 1889 and 1910. This three volume set presents a selection of his work in these areas. As a companion to the first volume, the second is comprised of various case studies made by Lang, ranging from ‘The Aryan Races of Peru’ and ‘The Folk-lore of France’ to ‘Irish Fairies’ and ‘The Ballads, Scottish and English’. Collectively, the General Introduction to the set and the Introductions to the individual volumes offer a thorough overview of Lang’s work in an astonishing variety of fields, including his translation work on Homer and his contributions to historiography (particularly Scottish). Headnotes to the individual items are of varying length and provide more detail on specific topics, and explanatory notes supply unique intellectual comment rather than merely factual information.
