| Description |
xix, 617 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [603]-608. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Man in Africa and his literature -- The ancient Soninke and Fulbe epics -- Gassire's lute (Soninke) -- The rediscovery of Wagadu (Soninke) -- The fight with the bida dragon (Soninke) -- Samba gana (Soninke) -- The blue blood (Fulbe) -- The valiant goroo-ba-dicko (Fulbe) -- Sayings of the Fulbe -- The messenger to Maftam (Soninke) -- Kanem-Bornu -- The two traders (Kanuri) -- The sau hunter (Kanuri) -- A chronology of kings and migrations in Kanem-Bornu -- How the Kanuri mark the time of the day -- The Hausa, an account of their origin -- Hausa religious poetry -- Seidu the brave (Hausa) -- Life and death (Hausa) -- The son of the hunter (Hausa) -- The friend and the lion (Hausa) -- Two Gizo tales -- The spider and the crows (Hausa) -- Spider deals with the famine (Hausa) -- Some Hausa proverbs and sayings -- Four tales of the impossible -- Contest at the baobab tree (Hausa) -- Three friends cross the water (Hausa) -- The strong one (Mende) -- Three fast men (Mende) -- Lion of Manding (Wolof) -- The king of Sedo (Wolof) -- The song of Gimmile (Gindo). |
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The gluttonous ansige (Karamba) -- The cow-tail switch (Jabo) -- Preachments of the animals (Grebo) -- Kru war song -- Hammer and chisel rhythm (Mano) -- The Akan peoples of Ghana -- Akan poetry -- Drum poetry of the Akan peoples -- Drum poems to Onyame, the supreme deity (Akan) -- Akan sayings about Nyame (Onyame) -- The drum-history of the state of Mampon (Ashanti) -- Chiefdom among the Ashanti -- A song for the new chief (Ashanti) -- Some Ashanti proverbs -- Sayings as guides to good social behavior (Ashanti) -- Riddle (Ashanti) -- Four Ashanti tales -- The coming of the yams (Ashanti) -- Journey to Asamando, land of the dead (Ashanti) -- O the world! (Ashanti) -- Talk (Ashanti) -- Gold and gold weights (Ashanti) -- Ashanti proverbs and sayings cast in brass -- The search for gold (Ashanti) -- Anansi, trickster hero of the Akan -- Anansi proves he is the oldest (Ashanti) -- Anansi owns all tales that are told (Ashanti) -- Anansi's rescue from the river (Ashanti) -- Aberewa's sword (Ashanti) -- Anansi borrows money (Ashanti) -- Anansi gives Nyame a child (Ashanti) -- How debt came to Ashanti -- The competition for Nyame's daughter (Ashanti) -- The hat-shaking dance (Ashanti) -- Anansi plays dead (Ashanti) -- The king's drum (Ashanti). |
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The wall of millet (Togo) -- Dahomey, the kingdom built in Da's belly -- The gods of Dahomey, their exploits -- To each is given his dominion (Fon) -- The rule of sky and earth delimited (Fon) -- Sogbo becomes master of the universe (Fon) -- Sagbata's control of Earth stabilized (Fon) -- Sun god brings iron to man (Fon) -- Serpent as headrest for an overburdened Earth (Fon) -- The people who descended from the sky (Fon) -- Origin of the people of the Agblo quarter (Fon) -- How Legba became chief of the gods (Fon) -- Exploits of the Aladahonu dynasty (Fon) -- Origin of the royal sib (Fon) -- How the Aladahonu kings came to rule Abomey (Fon) -- The king and the nago (Fon) -- How Behanzin fought against the whites (Fon) -- Seeking poverty (Fon) -- Two Dahomean songs for the dead -- Some Dahomean riddles -- Some Dahomean proverbs -- The Yoruba -- Deeds and adventures of the Yoruba gods -- The descent from the sky (Yoruba) -- Iron is received from Ogun (Yoruba) -- Oranmiyan, the warrior hero of Ife (Yoruba) -- Orunmila's visit to Owo (Yoruba) -- Shango and the medicine of Eshu (Yoruba) -- Obatala's visit to Shango (Yoruba) -- How Shango departed from Oyo (Yoruba) -- Yoruba warriors, kings and heroes -- Ogbe Baba Akinyelure, warrior of Ibode (Yoruba) -- The burning of the elekute grove (Yoruba) -- Ogedengbe's drummers (Yoruba) -- Olomu's bush rat (Yoruba) -- The Yoruba trickster, Ijapa -- How Ijapa, who was short, became long (Yoruba) -- Ijapa cries for his horse (Yoruba) -- Ijapa and the oba repair a roof (Yoruba) -- Ijapa and Yanrinbo swear an oath (Yoruba) -- Ijapa and the hot-water test (Yoruba) -- Ijapa goes to the Osanyin shrine (Yoruba) -- Ijapa in Yoruba proverbs -- The worship of twins among the Yoruba -- How twins came among the Yoruba -- Two tales from Benin -- Igioromi (Bini) -- Ozolua and Izevbokun (Bini) -- How bronze castings were made at Benin. |
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Onugbo and Oko (Idoma) -- Three Isoko songs from Ilue Ologbo -- The Ekoi people of the Calabar coast -- Obassi Nsi and Obassi Osaw (Ekoi) -- How the first rain came (Ekoi) -- How the moon first came into the sky (Ekoi) -- How all the stars came (Ekoi) -- How the rivers first came on earth (Ekoi) -- The Egbo secret society (Ekoi and Efik) -- How the first Egbo image came -- How the Efik learned to cook their meat -- An Efik lamentation -- The feast (Bamum) -- Brass casting among the Bamum -- Some Cameroon sayings in pidgin English -- The journey of the Afo-a-Kom (Kom) -- The origin of the Kom kingdom -- The A-Mbundu of Angola -- Mbundu human tales : kings, hunters and heroes -- King Kitamba Kia Xiba (Mbundu) -- The young man and the river (Mbundu) -- Kingungu a njila and Ngundu a ndala (Mbundu) -- Two men, one woman (Mbundu) -- A father-in-law and his son-in-law (Mbundu) -- The young man and the skull (Mbundu) -- The white man and the negro (Mbundu) -- The past and the future (Mbundu) -- Squirrel and the kingship (Mbundu) -- Dog and the kingship (Mbundu) -- Dog and Lizard (Mbundu) -- Dog and Jackal (Mbundu) -- The house-hog and the wild boar (Mbundu) -- Partridge and Turtle (Mbundu) -- Lion and Wolf (Mbundu) -- Frog and his two wives (Mbundu) -- Dinianga dia ngombe and deer (Mbundu). |
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Nzambi and Nzambi Mpungu (Kongo-Fiote) -- The bird messengers (Kongo-Fiote) -- Nzambi Mpungu's ambassador (Kongo-Fiote) -- Who beats Nzambi's drum? (Kongo-Fiote) -- Nchonzo Nkila's dance drum (Kongo-Fiote) -- Nzambi's daughter and her slave (Kongo-Fiote) -- Creation of Lake Bosa (Kongo-Fiote) -- How the spider won and lost Nzambi's daughter (Kongo-Fiote) -- Litigation among the Fiote people -- Litigation among the Bambala -- Mnemonics for a Yombe song -- The Mwindo epic (Nyanga) -- Some songs of the Luba people -- The supreme deity of the Luba -- How I shall be admired (Bene-Mukuni) -- The story of Mukana-Lwewo (Lamba) -- Teachings of the Chagga elders -- Nothing on Earth is cleverer than the female sex (Chagga) -- We are little snails who seek refuge behind the fronds of the banana tree (Chagga) -- Chiefs are like the rain (Chagga) -- Eating alone brings ruin (Chagga) -- The head of a man is a hiding place, a receptacle (Chagga). |
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Some traditions and stories of the Ganda -- The first king of Uganda (Ganda) -- The legend of Kintu (Ganda) -- Mpobe and death (Ganda) -- Ndyakubi and Ndalakubi (Ganda) -- Some proverbs and sayings of the Ganda -- How the mountains and rivers were made (Akamba) -- Wanjiru, sacrificed by her people (Kikuyu) -- The lost sister (Kikuyu) -- Mukunga M'bura (Kikuyu) -- The making of iron among the Kikuyu people -- Music among the Bongo -- Schweinfurth gets to see the Akka Pygmies -- A song of the Twa Pygmies of Rwanda -- Some literary traditions of the southern Bantu -- Origin of the Tsonga or Shangaan people -- Some customs and traditions of the Tsonga or Shangaan people -- Shangaan children's activities -- Storytelling among the Shangaan -- The adventures of Papaju (Shangaan) -- The story of Xikhibana (Shangaan) -- Tendejuva the handsome (Shangaan) -- Shinangana's chronology -- The origin of the Venda people -- How Phuti became a totem of the Tswana people -- Much searching disturbs things that were lying still (Tswana) -- Some Tswana proverbs -- A Xhosa reproves a missionary -- How God distributed property (Xhosa). |
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The story of Umkxakaza-Wakogingqwayo (Zulu) -- The king's child and Ubongopa-Kamagadhlela (Zulu) -- Uncama-Ngamanzi-Egudu's journey to the other world (Zulu) -- The man who threw away his bread (Zulu) -- How the Zulu experience sympathy through the navel -- Some Zulu riddles -- News from Zululand -- Fragments of the Zulu past in song -- The hemp smoker and the hemp grower (Shona) -- Shona walking song -- The Bushmen and Hottentots -- The coming of the sun in the sky (Bushman) -- The son of the wind (Bushman) -- The wind in the form of a bird (Bushman) -- The lion's dwelling place (Bushman) -- The cloud-eaters (Hottentot) -- The fish-stealers (Hottentot) -- A Nama woman married to an elephant (Hottentot) -- The horse cursed by the sun (Hottentot) -- The origin of death (Hottentot) -- Some eastern cattle peoples -- The Tutsi of Rwanda and Burundi -- The hunting ritual of Tutsi kings -- Royal drums of the Tutsi -- Ibabazabahizi (Tutsi) -- Abagombozi poetry of the Tutsi -- Gihilihili : the snake-person (Tutsi). |
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Some Masai myths and traditions -- How the Masai got their cattle -- Why man dies and does not live again (Masai) -- How the Masai split off from other people -- The sun and the moon (Masai) -- The stars (Masai) -- Sunrise and sunset (Masai) -- The rainbow (Masai) -- Comets (Masai) -- Sheet lightning (Masai) -- The story of the flocks and the rain and the sun (Masai) -- The story of the night and day (Masai) -- Earthquakes (Masai) -- Volcanoes and the steam jets (Masai) -- Origin of the Lumbwa people (Masai) -- The giraffe hunters (Masai) -- The Nuer and God -- Dialogues with Europeans (Shilluk) -- Ethiopian beginnings : the Axumite Empire -- The Queen of Sheba legend : the founding of the Solomonic dynasty (Ethiopian) -- How Makeda visited Jerusalem, and how Menelik became king (Ethiopian) -- Another account of the Queen of Sheba (Ethiopian) -- Menelik's return to Axum, and how he became king (Ethiopian) -- The ten churches of Lalibela (Ethiopian) -- A proclamation of Menelik II (Ethiopian) -- The sense of what is just : five Ethiopian tales -- The donkey who sinned -- The goats who killed the leopard -- The judgment of the wind -- Fire and water, truth and falsehood -- Justice -- Four poems from the Amharic. |
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Myths and legends of the Mensa Bet-Abrehe -- Creation and death (Mensa) -- The Rom, a race of giants (Mensa) -- How the giants disappeared (Mensa) -- Certain years as they are remembered in Mensa Bet-Abrehe tradition -- Philosophical and proverbial sayings of the Mensa, and the tales from which they derived -- The two donkey owners (Mensa) -- The prophet and the hyena (Mensa) -- The proverb of Adeg Wad Fedel (Mensa) -- God's gift to children (Mensa) -- A proverb made by the Ad Takles people -- The leopard in his old age (Mensa) -- The debbi (Mensa) -- The descent of Mount Gadam (Mensa) -- Dannas and his slave (Mensa) -- The heway snake (Mensa) -- The poison of the chameleon (Mensa) -- The tail of the wolf (Mensa) -- Historical recollections of the Mensa -- The fight at Balqat (Mensa) -- The battle of Sangera (Mensa) -- Kantebay Sallim and Ali Wad Mao (Mensa) -- How the game of fersit is played -- Three laments of the Mensa Bet-Abrehe -- The Somali and Swahili -- Ogge Ben Onogh (Somali) -- The battle of Eghal Shillet (Somali) -- The lion's share (Somali) -- Adventures of Abunuwas, Somali hero -- The story of Liongo (Swahili) -- Poem of Liongo (Swahili) -- A Swahili poet of Mombasa -- Swahili dance song -- Appendix. Excerpt from a United Nations report on bride price. |
| Subject |
Folklore -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
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Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Social life and customs.
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| Added Title |
African folklore.
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| ISBN |
0517516705: $14.95 |
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9780517516706 |
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