Where Animals Talk: West African Folk Lore Tales
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Chapters (80)
- PREFACE
- PRONUNCIATION
- CONTENTS
- PART FIRST Mpongwe
- FOREWORD
- TALE 1 Do Not Trust Your Friend
- TALE 2 Leopard’s Hunting Camp
- TALE 3 Tests of Death—1st Version
- TALE 3 Tests of Death—Second Version
- TALE 4 Tasks Done for a Wife
- TALE 5 A Tug-of-War
- TALE 6 Agĕnda: Rat’s Play on a Name
- TALE 7 “Nuts Are Eaten Because of Angângwe”; A Proverb
- TALE 8 Who Are Crocodile’s Relatives?
- TALE 9 Who is King of Birds?
- TALE 10 “Njiwo Died of Sleep”: A Proverb
- TALE 11 Which is the Fattest?
- TALE 12 Why Mosquitoes Buzz
- TALE 13 Unkind Criticism
- TALE 14 The Suitors of Princess Gorilla
- TALE 15 Leopard of the Fine Skin
- TALE 16 Why The Plantain-Stalk Bears But One Bunch
- PART SECOND Benga Tribe
- FOREWORD
- TALE 1 Swine Talking
- TALE 2 Crocodile
- TALE 3 Origin of the Elephant
- TALE 4 Leopard’s Marriage Journey
- TALE 5 Tortoise in a Race
- TALE 6 Goat’s Tournament
- TALE 7 Why Goats Became Domestic
- TALE 8 Igwana’s Forked Tongue
- TALE 9 What Caused their Deaths?
- TALE 10 A Quarrel About Seniority
- TALE 11 The Magic Drum
- TALE 12 The Lies of Tortoise
- TALE 13 “Death Begins By Some One Person”: A Proverb
- TALE 14 Tortoise and the Bojabi Tree
- TALE 15 The Suitors Of Njambo’s Daughter
- TALE 16 Tortoise, Dog, Leopard and the Njabi Fruit
- TALE 17 A Journey for Salt
- TALE 18 A Plea for Mercy
- TALE 19 The Deceptions of Tortoise
- TALE 20 Leopard’s Hunting Companions
- TALE 21 Is the Bat a Bird or a Beast?
- TALE 22 Dog, and His Human Speech (1st Version)
- TALE 22 Dog, and His Human Speech (2nd Version)
- TALE 23 The Savior of the Animals
- TALE 24 Origins of the Ivory Trade (1st Version)
- TALE 24 Origin of the Ivory Trade (2nd Version)
- TALE 25 Dog and His False Friend Leopard
- TALE 26 A Trick for Vengeance
- TALE 27 Not My Fault!
- TALE 28 Do Not Impose on the Weak
- TALE 29 Borrowed Clothes
- TALE 30 The Story of a Panic
- TALE 31 A Family Quarrel
- TALE 32 The Giant Goat
- TALE 33 The Fights of Mbuma-Tyĕtyĕ and An Origin of the Leopard
- TALE 34 A Snake’s Skin Looks Like a Snake
- PART THIRD Fang Tribe
- FOREWORD
- TALE 1 Candor
- TALE 2 Which is the Better Hunter, an Eagle or a Leopard?
- TALE 3 A Lesson in Evolution
- TALE 4 Parrot Standing on One Leg
- TALE 5 A Question of Right of Inheritance
- TALE 6 Tortoise Covers His Ignorance
- TALE 7 A Question as to Age
- TALE 8 Abundance: A Play on the Meaning of a Word
- TALE 9 An Oath, With a Mental Reservation
- TALE 10 The Treachery of Tortoise
- TALE 11 A Chain of Circumstances
- INDEX
- Colophon
- Availability
- Metadata
- Revision History
- External References
- Corrections
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