African Folktales
| Editor | Roger D. Abrahams |
| Copyright Holder (Illustrations) | Keith Hau |
| Publisher | The Folio Society |
| Illustrator | Keith Hau |
| Paper | Abbey Wove |
| Typeset by | The Folio Society |
| Printed and Bound by | Kösel, Krugzell |
| Translated by | Roger D. Abrahams |
| Revised by | Roger D. Abrahams |
| Foreword by | Wole Soyinka |
| Published in/by Arrangement with | Pantheon Books |
| Copyright Holder (Foreword/Preface) | Wole Soyinka |
| Retold/Rewritten by | Roger D. Abrahams |
| Selected by | Roger D. Abrahams |
| Copyright Holder | Roger D. Abrahams |
| Format | Hardback |
| Language | English |
| Location | London, England |
| This Edition Published | 2016 |
| Copyright | 1983 |
| Copyright | 2016 |
| Pages / Font | 336 pages / Fairfield / Gill Sans |
| Chapters | Foreword Introduction PART ONE : TALES OF WONDER FROM THE GREAT OCEAN OF STORY Demane and Demazana The Password The Three Tests Monkey Steals a Drum A Man Who Could Transform Himself Tale of an Old Woman The King's Daughter Who Lost Her Hair Profitable Amends The Man and the Muskrat The Hare's Hoe Why the Hare Runs Away The Tortoise and the Falcon Rubiya The Flying Lion A-Man-Among-Men PART TWO: STORIES TO DISCUSS AND EVEN ARGUE ABOUT The Contest of Riddles Leopard, Goat and Tam An Eye for an Eye? Wondrous Powers: Mirror, Sandals, and a Medicine Bag The Devil Comes Between Them The Quality of Friendship Who Should He Kill? Killing Virtue A Spirited Contending Love Caused It All Killed for a Horse Three Wives The Five Helpers Many Miracles Their Eyes Came Out He Starved His Own The Smart Man and the Fool Fembar's Curiosity A Father's Advice Is It Right That She Should Bite Me? Take Me Carefully, Carefully Tiger Slights the Tortoise The Nature of the Beast The Disobedient Sisters Rich Man, Poor Man Finders Keepers The Leopard Woman PART THREE: TALES OF TRICKSTERS AD OTHER RIDICULOUS CREATURES: TALES TO ENTERTAIN Why Monkeys Live in Trees All the Little Animals Why the Dog Always Chases Other Animals The Story of Hlakanyana Cursing the Birds Saving the Rain Stuffing the Hyena Cutting the Elephant's Hips The Clever Wakasanke The Tricksters' Encounter How Squirrel Robbed Rabbit of His Tail Victims of Vanity Death by Burning The Ant's Burden Their Soft Crowns Discovered The Pig's Nose and the Baboon's Rear One Trick Deserves Another The Pleasure of His Company The Dog Eats All the Ants No Longer Fear the Cock's Comb How Honey Guide Came to Have Power Over Honey The Trapper Trapped Medicine to Catch Him Friends for a Time The Great Overland Trek The Shundi and the Cock Spider Outwits the Rich Woman Softly, Over the Head of the Great Treachery Repaid The Great Dikithi The Work Done by Itself Two Friends from Their Childhood Talking Drums Discovered PART FOUR: MAKING A WAY THROUGH LIFE Salt, Sauce and Spice, Onion Leaves, Pepper, and Drippings The Old Woman with Sores How It Pays Sometimes to Be Small The Cloth of Pembe Mirui The Wooing Battle The Orphan with the Cloak of Skin Tungululi and the Monsters Chameleon into Needle Mother, Come Back The Three Sisters The Messenger Bird The Child in the Reeds A Woman's Quest Never Ask Me About My Family A Man Marries a Lioness Bibliography Acknowledgements Index of Tales |
| Notes | Bound in blocked paper and housed in plain red slipcase. Frontispiece and 7 colour illustrations and printed endpapers. |
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