The Hare And Baboon And Other Stories

Author : Kandie Oriade,Hamissou Samari,Sipho Ndlela,Thamba Tabvuma,Yuri Santos,Nina Taka,Ousmane Diallo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1947350064

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The Hare and Baboon and Other Stories by Kandie Oriade,Hamissou Samari,Sipho Ndlela,Thamba Tabvuma,Yuri Santos,Nina Taka,Ousmane Diallo Pdf

The Hare and Baboon and other Stories is a collection of 7 fables from 7 different countries on the African continent: Nigeria, Togo, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Angola, Cameroon, and Cote d'Ivoire. These tales are filled with the warmth of Africa and offer a glimpse into the cultures they are set in. They are filled with talking animals and adventurous quests. They generally include morals that teach us to be better people. Among other things, the stories explain how the tortoise's shell became cracked, and how fire came to earth. Each story is accompanied by an original illustration painted by the artist Thamba Tabvuma.

Author : Chinodya, Shimmer
Publisher : Weaver Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781779223159

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Can We Talk and Other Stories by Chinodya, Shimmer Pdf

Shimmer Chinodya, winner of the 1989 Commonwealth Writers Prize (Africa region) is one of Zimbabwe's foremost fiction writers. This collection of short stories reveals his development as a writer of passionate questioning integrity. The first stories, 'Hoffman Street' and 'The Man who Hanged Himself' capture the bewildered innocence of a child's view of the adult world, where behaviour is often puzzling and contradictory; stories such as 'Going to See Mr B.V.' provide the transition between the world of the adult and that of the child where the latter is required to act for himself in a situation where illusions founder on a narrow reality. 'Among the Dead' and 'Brothers and Sisters' look wryly at the self-conscious, self-centred, desperately serious world of young adulthood while 'Playing your Cards', 'The Waterfall', 'Strays' and 'Bramson' introduce characters for whom ambition, disillusion, and disappointment jostle for attention in a world where differences of class, culture, race and morality come to the fore. Finally, in 'Can we Talk' we conclude with an abrasive, lucid, sinewy voice which explores the nature of estrangement. The charge is desolation. Can we Talk and Other Stories speaks of the unspoken and unsaid. The child who watches but does not understand, the young man who observes but cannot participate, the man who stands outside not sure where his desires and ambitions lead, the older man, estranged by his own choices. 'Can we Talk' is not a question but a statement that insists on being heard, and demands a reassessment of our dreams.

Author : Shimmer Chinodya
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781779223166

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Can We Talk and Other Stories by Shimmer Chinodya Pdf

Shimmer Chinodya, winner of the 1989 Commonwealth Writers Prize (Africa region) is one of Zimbabwe's foremost fiction writers. This collection of short stories reveals his development as a writer of passionate questioning integrity. The first stories, 'Hoffman Street' and 'The Man who Hanged Himself' capture the bewildered innocence of a child's view of the adult world, where behaviour is often puzzling and contradictory; stories such as 'Going to See Mr B.V.' provide the transition between the world of the adult and that of the child where the latter is required to act for himself in a situation where illusions founder on a narrow reality. 'Among the Dead' and 'Brothers and Sisters' look wryly at the self-conscious, self-centred, desperately serious world of young adulthood while 'Playing your Cards', 'The Waterfall', 'Strays' and 'Bramson' introduce characters for whom ambition, disillusion, and disappointment jostle for attention in a world where differences of class, culture, race and morality come to the fore. Finally, in 'Can we Talk' we conclude with an abrasive, lucid, sinewy voice which explores the nature of estrangement. The charge is desolation. Can we Talk and Other Stories speaks of the unspoken and unsaid. The child who watches but does not understand, the young man who observes but cannot participate, the man who stands outside not sure where his desires and ambitions lead, the older man, estranged by his own choices. 'Can we Talk' is not a question but a statement that insists on being heard, and demands a reassessment of our dreams.

Author : Sarura Kids
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798211496200

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African Folktales of Hare and Baboon by Sarura Kids Pdf

A collection of five delightful tales about the sneaky Hare and the trusting and gullible Baboon. These stories are translated into English and offer an insight into the folktales that have been told through the generations in Zimbabwe. With charming illustrations by Sarura Kids, these stories are a delight as well as being tales that teach and advise.

Author : Kandie Oriade,Hamissou Samari,Sipho Ndlela,Thamba Tabvuma,Yuri Santos,Nina Taka,Ousmane Diallo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1947350056

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The Hare and Baboon and Other Stories by Kandie Oriade,Hamissou Samari,Sipho Ndlela,Thamba Tabvuma,Yuri Santos,Nina Taka,Ousmane Diallo Pdf

The Hare and Baboon and other Stories is a collection of 7 fables from 7 different countries on the African continent: Nigeria, Togo, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Angola, Cameroon, and Cote d'Ivoire. These tales are filled with the warmth of Africa and offer a glimpse into the cultures they are set in. They are filled with talking animals and adventurous quests. They generally include morals that teach us to be better people. Among other things, the stories explain how the tortoise's shell became cracked, and how fire came to earth. Each story is accompanied by an original illustration painted by the artist Thamba Tabvuma.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : First Avenue Editions
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781580138499

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The Lion and the Hare by Anonim Pdf

A retelling of a traditional East African tale in which a clever hare finds a way to outwit the lion that is terrifying all the other grassland animals.

Author : Victoria Mushaba Chimhutu
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781524550387

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The Hare Gets Married and Other Tales by Victoria Mushaba Chimhutu Pdf

This book is inspired by folktales that my grandmother narrated to me when I was a child. Growing up in rural Zimbabwe, we would sit around the fire in our mud hut after dinner and listen to my grandmothers storytelling long into the night. This book is a collection of different folktales that happened a long time ago, somewhere deep in the forests of Zimbabwe. The folktales sometimes feature some interaction between and among animals and sometimes a combination of animals and humans. The folktales are didactic in nature, thus they often end up depicting important life lessons.

Author : Buchi Offodile
Publisher : Interlink Books
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2001-07-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015053049287

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The Orphan Girl and Other Stories by Buchi Offodile Pdf

collected and retold by Buchi Offodile Once upon a moonlit night, children gathered elbow to elbow, lying on the ground, while the adults sat near by, drinking and snacking. They listened to the storyteller, who held adult and child alike rapt with animal noises and spooky voices, gesture and song, call and response, until the wick of the palm-oil lamp ran down and the storyteller tired. It wasn’t that the stories themselves were over—no, many more were yet to be told: tales of the ever-scheming tortoise, spider, or hare; tales of spirits tempting children; tales of fate punishing whole villages for their folly, or rewarding them for their perseverance. Though almost all the tales have morals, the most popular characters are the tricksters: the tortoise, the spider, and the hare. The Orphan Girl includes a fascinating introduction exploring the roots of the storytelling tradition in the history and culture of West Africa. History’s boundaries divide this book by nation, from Mauritania into the continent’s interior, to the hinterlands of Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger, and down the Atlantic coast as far as Cameroon. Each country is represented by several stories, a map and brief information. Invariably though, as all of these countries share common origins and cultures, the stories overlap and play off each other. For example, a Ghanaian story featuring Anansi, the spider, is almost the same tale told by the Igbos of Eastern Nigeria starring Mbe Nwaniga, the tortoise.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Tales By Roohi
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781476388434

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How the ostrich lost his fire and other stories by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Larousse Kingfisher Chambers
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 0862722330

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The Hare & the Tortoise, and Other Stories by Anonim Pdf

Author : Grace Ashley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1715244885

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The Baboon and the Rabbit by Grace Ashley Pdf

The Baboon and The Rabbit (The Rabbit Plays A Trick) is a funny African children's classic tale that will have people of all ages in stitches. The Rabbit well known for his crafty nature is up to his tricks again. This time when he invites his friend Baboon to his feast his other friends are not happy. They don't want him to come too. Instead of taking Baboons side Rabbit decides to prank him. But with every mean trick, there is a cost as Rabbit soon learns when he pays for his past mischief.

Author : Albert Munyoro
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781779295385

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Cracks and Other Short Stories by Albert Munyoro Pdf

There are little strokes that fell great oaks and often unattended cracks in a diversity of our socio-economic and political institutions can ultimately lead to a total collapse of systems. Cracks and Other Short Stories is an anthology that offers readers an insight into some of the major cracks in our personalities and institutions as a subtle means of encouraging everyone to investigate them further and seek lasting solutions for the good of humanity. Cracks signal that things are out of sorts and need timeous repair, healing and mending before systems become dysfunctional and torturous to humanity. Thus, each story in this impeccable collection deals with specific metaphorical cracks which require problem solving for the betterment of society.

Author : Mrs. Martha Matsvai
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781728399386

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Chemakanda the Storyteller by Mrs. Martha Matsvai Pdf

Martha Matsvai, in this her third book, waxes lyrical as she digs deep into the cultural reservoir of folk tales to present stories around the mysterious and enigmatic Chemakanda whose magnetic attraction to children knew no bounds. In these truly engaging short stories, with some of them being anthropomorphic (where an animal acts like a human being) like the golden folktales of the Shona people of Zimbabwe, the reader is invited into an atmosphere of captivating intrigue which makes it impossible to put the book down before the story is done. The stories are full of adventure, humour and perennial lessons on human living across the age spectrum which leave one with a sense of deep satisfaction and therapeutic engagement. One cannot wait to ‘devour’ them all. Welcome to Chemakanda’s world... Dr Paul Matsvai Series Editor

Author : Nick Greaves
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Animals
ISBN : 0947444122

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When Hippo was Hairy and Other Tales from Africa by Nick Greaves Pdf

Thirty-six animal folktales from all parts of Africa, with factual information about each animal following the stories.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Interlink Books
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2001-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : IND:30000078222043

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The Orphan Girl and Other Stories by Anonim Pdf

The Orphan Girl includes a fascinating introduction exploring the roots of the storytelling tradition in the history and culture of West Africa. Each country is represented by several stories, a map and brief information. To compile these tales, Kent State professor and storyteller Buchi Offodile searched villages for elders who remembered the old stories. These 41 tales are culled from a lifetime of listening, reading, and researching.