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The Cow-Tail Switch, And Other West African Stories

✍ Scribed by Courlander, Harold & Herzog, George

Book ID
104476821
Publisher
Henry Holt & Company
Year
1986
Tongue
English
Weight
4 MB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780805002980

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

The stories of West Africa are about men and animals, about kings, warriors, and hunters. They tell about clever people and stupid people, about good ones and bad ones, about how things and animals got to be how they are. Some stories in this book will make you think. Some will make you laugh. All of them are retold with folk spirit full of generosity and vitality.
Africa is many things --
Cow-tail switch --
Kaddo's wall --
Talk --
One you don't see coming --
Kassa, the strong one --
Anansi's fishing expedition --
Younde goes to town --
Singing tortoise --
Time --
Messenger to Maftam --
Guinea fowl and rabbit get justice --
Anansi and Nothing go hunting for wives --
How Soko brought debt to Ashanti --
Hungry spider and the turtle --
Throw mountains --
Ansige Karamba, the glutton --
Don't shake hands with everybody

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