West African Folktales, Paperback - ***

West African traditions and folklore delight in tales of animals and tricksters. From Nigeria to Benin, to the cunning spider Anansi, animals teach...

The deep forest and broad savannah, the campsites, kraals, and villages--from this immense area south of the Sahara Desert the distinguished Americ...

Reducere. Folk tales around the world, observes the author, often contain similar narratives, providing, perhaps, yet another example of the universal brothe...

Reducere. What is particularly exciting about this book is that many of the stories, in their oral form, are almost as old as Africa itself. Most of them wer...

Reducere. A collection of twenty-five African-American folktales focuses on strong female characters and includes Little Girl and Bruh Rabby, Catskinella, an...

From the trickster tale of Anansi the spider, to the story of how the leopard got his spots; from the tale of the king who wanted to the moon, to A...

An enchanting collection of folk tales retold by a professional storytellerPublisher: The History Press LtdAuthor(s): Cath EdwardsIllustration(s): ...

Reducere. In these beloved stories we meet a Kenyan lion named Simba, a snake with seven heads, and tricksters from Zulu folklore; we hear the voices of the ...

West and North African Cooking.Get your copy of the best and most unique African recipes from BookSumo Press Come take a journey with us into the d...

Reducere. How was the earth formed, and where did animals come from? Why does the hippopotamus live in water, and why do cats chase rats? Imaginative answers...

Reducere. The author picked up his love of folk tales from his father and his uncle, Okuma Totokpuiti Gamega. In the evening, the kids and some adults sat in...

The modern nations of Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Burundi and Rwanda inherit the folk and mythic tales of the rift valley region. Here you'll find sto...

Reducere. The African imagination unmercifully breaks down European preconceptions of what a folktale is supposed to look like. Poetic, somewhat absurd, and ...

Reducere. In the early years of this century, miners from nearly every country in Europe and Asia Minor migrated to West Virginia to seek employment in its g...

Reducere. Ghanaian cuisine is in a class on its own. The herbs and spices used in the dishes of this West African country and its neighbors add unique and po...

Reducere. Rabbi Harvey is Back with Ten Hilarious New Adventures In this follow-up to the popular The Adventures of Rabbi Harvey: A Graphic Novel of Jewish W...

Reducere. IN presenting these stories, which are of deep interest and value to South Africans, I hope they may prove of some value to those Americans who hav...

..". a major addition to the literature on oral traditions." Journal of Religion in AfricaThis 750-year-old epic celebrates the exploits of the leg...

Reducere. Newbery Medal"The stories of West Africa are about men and animals, about kings, warriors, and hunters. They tell about clever people and stupid pe...

Reducere. Believing that African American religious studies has reached a crossroads, Cornel West and Eddie Glaude seek, in this landmark anthology, to steer...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book concerns the ways in which a prominent West African Muslim community drew on a long legacy of Islamic knowledge transmission t...

Reducere. Foods of Sierra Leone and other West African countries is a unique cookbook focusing on West African foods many of which have a global appeal. It i...

Reducere. In Centering African Proverbs, Indigenous Folktales, and Cultural Stories in Curriculum, skilled experts George J. Sefa Dei and Mairi McDermott dev...

Ouidah, an African town in Dahomey, now Benin, was the principal pre-colonial commercial centre of its region and this is the first detailed study ...

DescriptionA groundbreaking book that puts early and medieval West Africa on the map of global historyPick up almost any book on early and medieval...

Reducere. DescriptionHow activists in Ghana, South Africa, and Brazil provide inspiration and strategies for combating the gender violence epidemic in the Un...

The first man and woman are lonely. What to do? They decide to fashion children out of clay. As they are baking the little figures in their fire, t...

Reducere. This book presents a prototype of leadership that can be applicable to other societies and groups. This work is neither based on the comparison bet...

Reducere. From the eighth century onwards, the Muslim townsfolk of North Africa were well aware that fifty stages away across the desert to the south lay a l...

Reducere. African slavery in the Americas has left indelible marks on thegeographical, political, economic, social and cultural landscapes of theAmericas. An...

Reducere. Drawing on stories he heard as a boy from female relatives, Jilali El Koudia presents a cross section of utterly bewitching narratives. Filled with...

'No pressure, just food pleasure'Grime artist Big Zuu has a hidden talent - he has serious flair in the kitchen. Accompanying his hit TV series on ...

By prioritizing women and conjugality in the historiography of African colonial soldiers, Militarizing Marriage historicizes how the subjugation of...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: E. W. BovillAuthor: Edward W. Bovill"This book is the liveliest account of African history ever written, covering overone] ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Sleeping beauties? Not Clever Gretchen or Kate Crackernuts or Manka or any of the other young heroines in this wonderful collection of folktales. A...

DescriptionHow activists in Ghana, South Africa, and Brazil provide inspiration and strategies for combating the gender violence epidemic in the Un...

Studying the im/mobility trajectories of West Africans in the EU, this book presents a new approach to West African migrants in Europe. It argues t...

Decolonizing Ebola Rhetorics Following the 2013-2016 West African Ebola Outbreak defends the position that, despite the supposed "lessons" that hav...

Reducere. Description*Includes pictures*Includes contemporary accounts*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading"From the far reaches ...

Reducere. *Includes pictures*Includes contemporary accounts*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further readingBy the mid-15th century the Byzan...

DescriptionThe vibrant tradition of West African Arabic poetry is dominated by the genre of madih, that is, poetry in praise of the Prophet Muhamma...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Contains stories which range geographically from Corsica and Sicily to Venice and the Alps.

Reducere. Can the legendary trickster be out-tricked?All the young men had gathered in the village courtyard to hear the Chief's pronouncement: Whoever guess...

Studies the epistemologies of two of the most influential intellectual/spiritual traditions of West Africa: Tijani Sufism and Ifa.Illustrations: 5 ...

Reducere. DescriptionEveryone loves "Southern" food, but until recently few acknowledged the heavy influences of soul food, which itself was born of necessit...

The special magic of the Irish imagination shines forth in these fourteen authentic folktales.Illustrations: 77 Illustrations, black and white

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: MR Robin WalkerBlacks and Science Volume Two Did YOU know any of the following facts? o The Bamoun Kingdom, now in today's ...

Reducere. Awards🏆Nominee (1998) - Oregon Book Awards - (Nonfiction)Contributor(s): Author: Quintard TaylorThe American West is mistakenly known as a region w...