Black Folk Tales

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 26, 2024

In Category - Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales, Culture & Heritage Fiction

Authors: Erick Berry In Year : 1928

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Black Folk Tales

Foreword
The Story of Solomon and the Birds
The Town Where No One Slept
The Spider and the Two Chiefs
Why the Hartebeest Always Has Tears in His Eyes
Why the Owl Flies Only at Night
The Water of Ladi
The Goat and the Hyena
The Magpies and the Greedy Spider
The Maiden and the Sarakin Pumpkin
The Lion and the Squirrel
Another Story of the Spider
The Ram and the Youngest Son
The Lazy Frog

This book contains 13 Hausa folktales from Nigeria as retold and also illustrated by Erick Berry, the pen name of Evangel Alenna Champlin who lived in West Africa in the 1920s. While in Africa, she met and married Oswald Best, who was an official in the British Civil Service. They later moved to the United States, and Erick Berry went on to become a well known children's book illustrator as well as an author. Both she and her husband wrote books about Africa; in addition to this book of African folktales, Berry is also the author of Girls in Africa, and she did the illustrations for her husband's book, Garram the Hunter: A Boy of the Hill Tribes, a novel also set in Nigeria. - Summary by Laura Gibbs