Tales from Africa
By: retold by Kathleen Arnott ; illustrated by Rosamund Fowler.
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Oxford
Number of pages: 214
Subjects: Tales -- Africa.; Folklore -- Africa.; Mythology, African.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Originally published as: African myths and legends, 1962.
Table of contents: title: Why the dog is the friend of man; title: The man who learned the language of the animals; title: Tortoise and the lizard; title: The rubber man; title: Tortoise and the baboon; title: Spider and the lion; title: Thunder and lightning; title: Why the crab has no head or how the first river was made; title: A test of skill; title: The tale of the superman; title: Why the bush-fowl calls at dawn and why flies buzz; title: Spider and squirrel; title: Unanana and the elephant; title: Spider's web; title: The magic horns; title: Snake magic; title: Hare and the corn bins; title: What the squirrel saw; title: Hare and the hyena; title: The calabash children; title: The blacksmith's dilemma; title: The magic drum; title: Why the sun and moon live in the sky; title: The monkey's heart; title: The children who lived in a tree-house; title: Why the bat flies at night; title: Tug of war; title: The discontented fish; title: Hallabau's jealousy; title: Goto, King of the land and the water; title: The singing drum and the mysterious pumpkin; title: The snake chief; title: The two brothers; title: Fereyel and Debbo Engal the witch.