Folk Stories From The Gambia

Author : Dembo Fanta Bojang
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9983901072
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Folk Tales and Fables from The Gambia written by Dembo Fanta Bojang and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2009 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories narrate the tricks, deceit and greed of hyena in all his relationships. These traits come out strongly in the tales entitled: 'the cow, hyena, lion and hare share a home', 'hyena and hare go in search of food' and 'the hyena and the hare'. Hare, however, shows his ingenuity to always outsmart hyena. Cat's pilgrimage to Mecca and his self righteous attitude on his return was challenged by the eldest member of the clan of rats. He was reminded of his old ways before his transformation. Gambian folk tales carry moral lessons and even though they are not all spelt out in this collection, they are evident.

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Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9983901080
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Folk Tales and Fables from The Gambia written by and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fight between Massaneh Ceesay & Bakary Niuminko for the hand of the beautiful Banjulian girl, Fatou, has been a popular legend in The Gambia. The two men used marabouts notable in their mystic powers to win the young lady. Who did she choose? This second volume of Folk tales and Fables includes myths as well as fables. Koochi Barama is a story that transcends all the Gambian tribes. He was a close childhood friend of the king of Sabach. Koochi lived with his two wives. This story shows how lies and betrayal can affect close relationships. In the olden days, rulers used to forge alliances and exchange experiences. The close bond between the kings of Niamanty and Burawulay was well respected. Thus when the king of Niamanty died, his friend was consulted in the administration of his estate. The fables in this collection continue to teach the moral lessons and our cultural values.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Folk Stories from the Gambia written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bojang, Sukai Mbye
Publisher : Educational Services
ISBN 13 : 9983901099
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Folk Tales and Fables from The Gambia: Volume 3 written by Bojang, Sukai Mbye and published by Educational Services. This book was released on 2013-10-04 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This selection of ten stories was gathered from the Wollof, Mandingo and Jola people. The story of 'Boppi Jerreh' has been much narrated by the Wollof people of Banjul, the fisher folk of Barra, and its neighbourhood from time immemorial. The Wollof story, 'Kumba Ndaba marries Jeggan Touray' shows how the institution of marriage fosters kinship ties while the the stories gathered from the Jola people are all based on the occupational lives of women, a deep appreciation of nature, and the traditional practice of consulting soothsayers before embarking on any major initiative.

Author : Cornelius Gomez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gambian Folk Tales and Fables written by Cornelius Gomez and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bojang, Sukai Mbye
Publisher : Educational Services
ISBN 13 : 9983901102
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Folk Tales and Fables from The Gambia: Volume 4 written by Bojang, Sukai Mbye and published by Educational Services. This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories were gathered from the Serahulay, Wollof, Mandingo and Fula people of Gambia. The the themes in the nine stories contained in this Volume surround arranged marriages, polygamy and the lives of young girls in general.

Author : Emil Anthony Magel
Publisher : Three Continents
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Folktales from the Gambia written by Emil Anthony Magel and published by Three Continents. This book was released on 1984 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These translations of 45 Wolof folk-tales are organized according to their thematic patterns. The stories reveal much about the Wolof people's relationship with their environment, their beliefs about causality, and their social values, morality and customs.

Author : Sukai Mbye Bojang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789983901122
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Folk Tales and Fables of The Gambia written by Sukai Mbye Bojang and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories were gathered from the Serahulay, Wollof, Mandingo and Fula people of Gambia. The the themes in the nine stories contained in this Volume surround arranged marriages, polygamy and the lives of young girls in general.

Author : Sona Mariama
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ISBN 13 : 9789983960600
Total Pages : 45 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Folktales from the Gambia written by Sona Mariama and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0871407566
Total Pages : 1022 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Annotated African American Folktales (The Annotated Books) written by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 1022 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner • NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Fiction) Winner • Anne Izard Storytellers’ Choice Award Holiday Gift Guide Selection • Indiewire, San Francisco Chronicle, and Minneapolis Star-Tribune These nearly 150 African American folktales animate our past and reclaim a lost cultural legacy to redefine American literature. Drawing from the great folklorists of the past while expanding African American lore with dozens of tales rarely seen before, The Annotated African American Folktales revolutionizes the canon like no other volume. Following in the tradition of such classics as Arthur Huff Fauset’s “Negro Folk Tales from the South” (1927), Zora Neale Hurston’s Mules and Men (1935), and Virginia Hamilton’s The People Could Fly (1985), acclaimed scholars Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Maria Tatar assemble a groundbreaking collection of folktales, myths, and legends that revitalizes a vibrant African American past to produce the most comprehensive and ambitious collection of African American folktales ever published in American literary history. Arguing for the value of these deceptively simple stories as part of a sophisticated, complex, and heterogeneous cultural heritage, Gates and Tatar show how these remarkable stories deserve a place alongside the classic works of African American literature, and American literature more broadly. Opening with two introductory essays and twenty seminal African tales as historical background, Gates and Tatar present nearly 150 African American stories, among them familiar Brer Rabbit classics, but also stories like “The Talking Skull” and “Witches Who Ride,” as well as out-of-print tales from the 1890s’ Southern Workman. Beginning with the figure of Anansi, the African trickster, master of improvisation—a spider who plots and weaves in scandalous ways—The Annotated African American Folktales then goes on to draw Caribbean and Creole tales into the orbit of the folkloric canon. It retrieves stories not seen since the Harlem Renaissance and brings back archival tales of “Negro folklore” that Booker T. Washington proclaimed had emanated from a “grapevine” that existed even before the American Revolution, stories brought over by slaves who had survived the Middle Passage. Furthermore, Gates and Tatar’s volume not only defines a new canon but reveals how these folktales were hijacked and misappropriated in previous incarnations, egregiously by Joel Chandler Harris, a Southern newspaperman, as well as by Walt Disney, who cannibalized and capitalized on Harris’s volumes by creating cartoon characters drawn from this African American lore. Presenting these tales with illuminating annotations and hundreds of revelatory illustrations, The Annotated African American Folktales reminds us that stories not only move, entertain, and instruct but, more fundamentally, inspire and keep hope alive. The Annotated African American Folktales includes: Introductory essays, nearly 150 African American stories, and 20 seminal African tales as historical background The familiar Brer Rabbit classics, as well as news-making vernacular tales from the 1890s’ Southern Workman An entire section of Caribbean and Latin American folktales that finally become incorporated into the canon Approximately 200 full-color, museum-quality images