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Sundiata an Epic of Old Mali by D T Niane Publisher Comments This is a revision of Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali, a best seller for 30 years. Retold by griots, the guardians of African Culture, this oral tradition has been handed down from the thirteenth century and captures all the mystery and majesty... (read more) List Price $16.60 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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African Genesis: Folk Tales and Myths of Africa by Leo Frobenius Publisher Comments These entertaining tales reflect the geographic and cultural backgrounds of their storytellers. Ranging from Kabyl creation legends of the Berbers to ballads of the southern Sahara, the narrations are enhanced by illustrations adapted from... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Favorite African Folktales by Nelson Mandela Publisher Comments The vibrant tradition of African folktales is long and varied, but to date it has been largely overlooked in the West. Aware of this gap, Nelson Mandela has selected 32 stories, many of them translated from their original tongues, to show the seminal... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Penguin Epics #17: The Sunjata Story by Anonymous Publisher Comments After the leader of a great African kingdom hears that a baby has been born who will destroy him, he hides behind a mighty army and surrounds himself with magical charms.JThere remains only one way to kill him.JWhen the sister of his enemy seduces him... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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African Folktales by Paul Radin Publisher Comments A selection of eighty-one folktales from the many cultures that exist south of the Sahara, African Folktales includes tales of the Hausa and the Ashanti, the Bantu, the Bushmen, and the Zulu. The narratives, which range from the mythical tale to the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Epic of Askia Mohammed (African Epic Series) by Thomas Hale Synopsis Askia Mohammed is the most famous leader in the history of the Songhay Empire, which reached its apogee during his reign in 1493-1528. Songhay, approximately halfway between the present-day cities of Timbuktu in Mali and Niamey in Niger, became a... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Over the Lip of the World by Colleen J Mcelroy Publisher Comments With wit, insight, and humor, Colleen McElroy tells of her journey to Madagascar for a Fulbright research project exploring Malagasy oral traditions and myths. Throughout, she interweaves traditional Malagasy stories.... (read more) List Price $27.25 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Once Upon a Time in Africa: Stories of Wisdom and Joy by Joseph G Healey Publisher Comments Stories of Wisdom and Joy.... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sunjata (Penguin Classics) by Bamba Suso Publisher Comments Sunjata is a major African oral epic which details the exploits of its eponymous hero who started life as a gluttonous and slow-witted child and went on to defeat his greatest adversary and establish himself as master of the growing Mali empire. The tale... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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West African Folktales (91 Edition) by Jack Berry Publisher Comments These 123 tales reflect the rich oral tradition of West African folklore. This collection is unique in that the translations preserve the simplicity and directness of the original tales. No attempt was made to doctor them for Western sensitivities or to... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Fairy Tale and Folklore #05: African Folktales by Roger Abrahams Publisher Comments Nearly 100 stories from over 40 tribe-related myths of creation, tales of epic deeds, ghost stories and tales set in both the animal and human realms.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Lianja Epic by Maneniang Mubima Synopsis This is one of the most stirring tales from the folklore of East and Central Africa. Mugasha is a deity-king who harness natural elements and uses them to recapture the usurped kingdom of his father. He is in many ways a symbol of the indefatigable human... (read more) List Price $21.50 Your price: $9.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Hero with an African Face: Mythic Wisdom of Traditional Africa by Clyde W Ford Publisher Comments In this remarkable book, Clyde Ford restores to us the lost treasure of African mythology, bringing to life the ancient tales and showing why they matter so much to us today. African myths convey the perennial wisdom of humanity: the creation of the... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Contributions in Afro-American & African Studies #162: Folk Poetics: A Sociosemiotic Study of Yoruba Trickster Tales by Ropo Sekoni Publisher Comments Of all the different sub-genres of oral prose fiction among the Yoruba of Nigeria, the trickster tale is the most popular, especially among the nonruling stratum of society. Sekoni describes and explains literally what makes the trickster tale a... (read more) List Price $124.50 Your price: $27.50 Used - Hardcover
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African Folktales by Roger Abrahams Publisher Comments Nearly 100 stories from over 40 tribe-related myths of creation, tales of epic deeds, ghost stories and tales set in both the animal and human realms. From the Trade Paperback edition.... (read more) Your price: $14.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Black Cloth: A Collection of African Folktales by Bernard Binlin Dadié Publisher Comments A collection of 16 retold African folktales many involving the trickster spider, Anansi.... (read more) List Price $17.56 Your price: $15.58 Google eBooks - Electronic
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African Myths & Legends by Kathleen Arnott Publisher Comments Drawn from all parts of Africa, the myths and legends of the African people demonstrate a fierce sense of justice, great powers of patience and endurance, and supreme ability as story-tellers.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Legends of Africa by Mwizenge Tembo Synopsis With their universal themes of love, loss, and justice, myths, which define the values and customs of a particular society, continue to have meaning for us hundreds and even thousands of years after they were first told. The lavishly illustratd volumes... (read more) Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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The hero with an African face :mythic wisdom of traditional Africa by Clyde W Ford Publisher Comments "Discovering a deeply meaningful African myth is like finding an old snapshot of myself in a place long forgotten.... These myths are more than just folk tales or fables.... Here are epics as grand as Gilgamesh, heroes as hardy as Hercules, heroines as... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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Once Upon a Kingdom: Myth, Hegemony, and Identity by Isidore Okpewho Publisher Comments Using stories he collected from narrators from the old West African kingdom of Benin, the author shows how the present mirrors the past in both folklore and political reality, suggesting that African states fail to create a level playing field for the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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