Tales from Africa
By: compiled by Mary Medlicott ; illustrated by Ademola Akintola ; foreward by Vincent Magombe.
Contributors: Medlicott, Mary.; Akintola, Ademola, ill.
Publisher: Kingfisher
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Tales -- Africa; Children's stories, African (English); Folklore -- Africa; Short stories
Description: Includes nine stories based on folklore from various African countries and three original stories, representing the cultural diversity which exists in Africa.
Notes: "First published in ... 1995 as The river that went to the sky."
Table of contents: title: The river that went to the sky / Kasiya Makaka Phiri (Malawi); title: Gong gong / Amoafi Kwapong (Ghana); title: The hunter and the deerwoman / Funmi Osoba (Nigeria); title: Two of a kind / Masée Touré (Sierra Leone); title: No problem / Asenath Bole Odaga (Kenya); title: A most famous baker / Eva Dadrian (Egypt); title: How the tortoise won respect / Gcina Mulophe (South Africa); title: The Aboul family / Hassan Erraji (Morocco); title: Two brothers / Inno Sorsy (Ghana); title: Tiyotiyo / Charles Mungoshi (Zimbabwe); title: My godfather / Sousa Jamba (Angola); title: The new moon and the rain horn / Gaele Sobott-Mogwe (Botswana).