The African storyteller: stories from African oral traditions

The art of the storyteller. The beauty of the partridge (Kabyle, Algeria)

The unborn child (Lenje, Zambia)

The blue crane (San, southern Africa)

The python's shining stone (Ekoi, Nigeria)

The weight before the door (Arabic, Morocco)

Salamone the orphan (Tswana, Botswana, South Africa)

The head of a Masai woman (Kikuyu, Kenya)

The gamboler of the plain (Ronga, Mozambique).

Origins. The creation (Ganda, Uganda)

God creates man and woman (Anuak, Sudan)

Isis and Osiris (Egyptian)

The parting of the waters (Khoi, South Africa)

Ikaggen and the All-devourer (San, South Africa)

Ikaggen creates an eland (San, South Africa)

How death came in the world, five myths. God's message is garbled (Kamba, Kenya) ; The chameleon is late (Yao, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania) ; The dead man and the moon (Zande, Sudan) ; Sleep and death (Boloki, Central African Republic) ; The first war on Earth (Kono, Liberia, Sierra Leone)

Two stories about primal choices. The two bundles (Boloki, Central African Republic) ; The crow and the vulture (Asante, Ghana)

God moves to the heavens (Lozi, Zambia).

Tricksters. Abunawas and the goat's horns (Tigre, Ethiopia)

The story of Chakijana (Zulu, South Africa)

Beiho tricks his uncles (Tigre, Ethiopia)

Two tar baby stories. The wax doll (Vai, Liberia) ; The cunning hare (Ikom, Nigeria)

Turning the tables on trickster (Nuer, Sudan)

The magic drum (Benga, Gabon)

The grasshopper and the fiddle (Gogo, Tanzania)

The fox and the hyena (Yao, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania)

Mohammed with the magic finger (Arabic, Libya).

The hero. Sikhuluma, the boy who did not speak (Xhosa, South Africa)

Sudika-mbambi (Kimbundu, Angola)

Liongo (Swahili, eastern Africa)

Ibonia (Malagasy, Madagascar)

Nyikang and the sun (Shilluk, Sudan).

Rites of passage. Ngomba's basket (Fiote, Congo)

Lion-child and Cow-child (Lamba, Zambia)

Ramaitsoanala (Malagasy, Madagascar)

Mrile (Chaga, Tanzania)

The girl with one hand (Swahili, eastern Africa)

The girl without legs (Somali, Somalia)

Konyek (Masai, Kenya)

The pregnant boy (Swati, Swaziland)

Thakane and her father (Sotho, Lesotho, South Africa)

Yarima, Arafa, and the king (Hausa, Nigeria and Niger)

The romance of the fox (Yoruba, Nigeria)

The two brothers (Egyptian)

The king's twelve sons and one daughter (Ijo, Nigeria)

The two Hammadis (Fulbe, Gambia)

Ma'aruf the cobbler and his wife (Arabic, Egypt)

The sky princess and the poor youth (Ndau, Mozambique)

The pauper's daughter (Swahili, eastern Africa)

The old woman and the eggs (Duala, Cameroon)

Umxakaza-wakogingqwayo (Zulu, South Africa).