Mpoto fables and folktales (Tanzania)
By: Margaret P. Mwingira, Robert Botne
Contributors: Botne, Robert Dale Olson, 1950- author
Series: Verbal art and documentary literature in African languages = Wortkunst und Dokumentartexte in afrikanischen Sprachen -- Band 38; Wortkunst und Dokumentartexte in afrikanischen Sprachen -- Bd. 38.
Publisher: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Köln
Language: eng; bnt
Number of pages: 121
ISBN-13: 9783896457387; 9873896457387
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Tales; Folklore; Bantu languages; Mpoto Fables; Mpoto Folk literature; Mpoto language; Texts
Notes: In English and Mpoto.
Table of contents: title: Preface -- Abbreviations; title: Fables --; title: Ndava Linyaunyau liyenda nyatanyata wichu : Why Spider moves very fast --; title: Ndava Kapecha ayii ni nkela uyipi : Why Hare has a short tail --; title: Ndava Kapecha ni Lwiha hiyii hee ni ukocha : Why Hare and Chameleon are not friends --; title: Ndava Kapecha ni Liyani hikalekana ukochi wavi : Why Hare and Monkey broke off their friendship --; title: Ndava Liyani livenga Kapecha : Why Monkey chases Hare --; title: Cha Kapecha kanketikihi Litombele : How Hare tricked Monkey --; title: Cha Lihogho linketikihi Kapecha : How Hyena tricked Hare --; title: Cha Lihogho lihovitayi makakala ghaki : How Hyena lost his power --; title: Folktales --; title: Muhana nkata ni ndomi waki nkata : The lazy wife and her lazy husband --; title: Ndomi yaa ahokiti muhana : The husband who wronged his wife --; title: Cha nchokolo atowili : How grandchild got married --; title: Muhavi ni lingʼwina : The witch and the crocodile.