Abrahams, Roger D. African Folktales. Pantheon Books, 1983.
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(Traditional stories of the Black World.)
_______, Afro-American Folktales. Pantheon Books, 1985.
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(Stories from Black traditions in the New World.)
Antubam, K. Ghana’s Heritage of Culture. Leipzig: Kohler and Amerlang, 1963 (Information book)
Bali, Esther. Taroh Folktales. Ibadan, Spectrum Books Ltd., 1990
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(A collection of short tales from the Taroh people of Nigeria which address the trickster hare, the hyena, the tortoise and the
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leopard.)
Barker, W.H., and Sinclair, C. West African Folk Tales. London: George Harrap and Co. and Sheldon Press, 1917
Berry, Jack. West African Folktales. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1961
(Collection of folktales from Ghana, Nigeria and Yorubaland.)
Bierlein, J. F., Parallel Myths. New York: Ballantine Books, 1994
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(Discussion of similar myths from different cultures.)
Brownlee, Frank. Lion and Jackal, with Other Native Folk Tales of South Africa. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1938
Bryan, Ashley. The Ox of the Wonderful Horns and Other African
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Folktales. Hartford: Connecticut Printers, 1971
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(An anthology of African tales.)
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Courlander, Harold. A Treasury of African Folklore. New York: Marlowe & Company, 1996
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( Oral literature, traditions, myths, legends, epics, tales,
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recollections, wisdom, sayings and humor of the various peoples of Africa.)
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_______, with Ezekiel A. Eshugbayi. Olode the Hunter and Other Tales from Nigeria. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1968
_______, with Albert Kofi Prempeh. The Cow-Tail Switch and Other West African Stories. Holt, 1947
_______, with Albert Kofi Prempeh. The Hat-Shaking Dance and
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Other Ashanti Tales from Ghana. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1957
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Cronise, Florence M., and Ward, Henry W. Cunnie Rabbit, Mr. Spider and Other Beef. London, 1903
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(Various African tales.)
Dayrell, Elphinstone. Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria. London, 1910
Ellis, A.B. The Yoruba-Speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa. London, 1894
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(Information book.)
Erdoes, Richard and Ortiz, Alfonso. American Indian Myths and Legends. New York: Pantheon, 1984
Feldman, Susan, ed. African Myths and Tales. New York: Dell Publishing Co., 1963
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(Myths, tales, stories and moral tales from Africa.)
Grunfeld, Frederic V., ed. Games of the World. New York: Holdt,
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Rinehart & Winston, 1975
Leslau, Charlotte and Wolf. Africa Folk Tales. Mt. Vernon, New York: Peter Pauper Press, N.D.
McCarthy, Tara. Multicultural Myths and Legends: Stories and Activities to Promote Cultural Awareness. New York: Scholastic Professional Books, 1994
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(Good teacher tool for Grades 4-7.)
_______, Multicultural Fables and Fairy Tales: Stories and Activities to Promote Literacy and Cultural Awareness.
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NewYork: Scholastic Professional Books, 1992
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(Good teacher tool for Grades 1-4.)
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Morgan, Kemi. Legends from Yorubaland. Ibadan, Nigeria: Spectrum Books Limited, 1988.
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(Collection of old tales from the Yoruba people.)
Parrinder, Geoffrey. African Mythology. London: The Hamlyn Publishing Group Ltd., 1967
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(Informative book containing myths, legends, folktales, etc. from Africa along with historical and geographical information.)
_______, African Mythology. New York: Peter Bedrick Books, 1985
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(Update of above book.)
Philip, Neil. The Illustrated Book of Myths: Tales & Legends of the World. New York: D.K. Publishing, Inc., 1995
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(Beautifully illustrated book of world myths.)
Radin, P., The Trickster. New York: Philosophical Library, 1956
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(Review of the elements of a trickster.)
Rattray, R.S. Akan-Ashanti Folk-Tales. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1931
Torrend, J. Specimens of Bantu Folklore from Northern Rhodesia.
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London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Company, 1921
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Tutuola, Amos. Yoruba Folktales. Ibadan, Nigeria: Ibadan University Press, 1986
(Collection of Yoruba tribe tales.)
Vernon-Jackson, Hugh. West African Folk Tales. London:
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University of London Press, 1958
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Willis, Roy. World Mythology. New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1993
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(A thorough review of world mythology.)