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Folk and Fairy Tales Library Guide: Africa
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Brothers Grimm
Cameroon
Tortoise the trickster and other folktales from Cameroon
by
Loreto Todd; with drawings by Geoffrey Whittam
The Sacred Door and Other Stories
by
Makuchi; Isidore Okpewho (Foreword by)
Egypt
Treasury of Egyptian Mythology
by
Donna Jo Napoli; Christina Balit (Illustrator); National Geographic Kids Staff
Handbook of Egyptian Mythology
by
Geraldine Pinch
Folktales of Egypt
by
Hasan M. El-Shamy (Editor); Richard M. Dorson (Foreword by)
Stories from Ancient Egypt
by
Joyce A. Tyldesley; Julian Heath
Ethiopia
The Perfect Orange
by
Frank P. Araujo; Xiao-jun Li (Illustrator)
The Fire on the Mountain and other stories from Ethiopia and Eritrea
by
Harold Courlander; Wolf Leslau; Robert Kane (Illustrator)
The Fire
by
Heinz Janisch; Fabricio VandenBroeck (Illustrator); Shelley Tanaka (Translator)
The Lion's Whiskers
by
Nancy Raines Day; Ann Grifalconi (Illustrator)
Kenya
Hyena and the Moon
by
Heather McNeil
Morocco
Moroccan Folktales
by
Jilali Koudia (Translator); Roger Allen (Translator)
The Last Storytellers
by
Richard Hamilton; Barnaby Rogerson (Foreword by)
Nigeria
Nigerian Folk Tales
by
Barbara K. Walker (Editor); Warren S. Walker (Editor)
The Dancing Palm Tree
by
Barbara K. Walker; Helen Siegl (Illustrator)
Olode the Hunter and Other Tales from Nigeria
by
Harold Courlander; Ezekiel A. Eshugbayi; Enrico Arno (Illustrator)
Why the Sky Is Far Away
by
Mary-Joan Gerson
South Africa
Myths and legends of the Bantu
by
Alice Werner
Fairy tales from South Africa
by
E. J. Bourhill
South-African folk-tales
by
James A Honeÿ
Sudan
Egyptian and Sudanese folk-tales
Wisdom from the Nile
by
Ahmed Al-Shahi (Introduction by); Francis Charles Timothy Moore (Introduction by)
Dinka folktales; African stories from the Sudan
by
Francis M. Deng; Martha Reisman (Illustrator); Michael Reisman (Foreword by)
Tunisia
Why the jackal won't speak to the hedgehog; a Tunisian folk tale
by
Harold Berson
More Resources
The black cloth : a collection of African folktales
by
Bernard B. Dadie; Karen C. Hatch (Translator); Es'kia Mphahlele (Foreword by)
A Pride of African Tales
by
Donna L. Washington; James Ransome (Illustrator)
Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales
by
Nelson Mandela (Editor)
African Myths of Origin
by
Stephen Belcher
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