Product Description: Large Print Edition. The charming, traditional folk tales and legends of the Yoruba people of East Africa. The Yoruba people inhabit a large area of East Africa, primarily in southern Nigeria, Benin and Togo. They are united by language and religious tradition.

Product Description: As a child, Ifeoma Onyefulu was catapulted into a strange storytelling world predominated less by happy endings than by learning a lesson or two. For this collection, she retells nine of the best Nigerian tales. In The Girl Who Married a Ghost, stuck-up Oglisa discovers that pride goes before a fall; and in the Wrestler and the Ghost, the greatest wrestler in the world gets his comeuppance when he challenges a ghost...read more

A collection of thirty folk tales which feature the trickster, Tortoise, and other jungle animals. (view table of contents)

Five traditional Nigerian tales include 'Hen and Frog,' 'Why Bush Cow and Elephant are Bad Friends,' 'The Husband Who Counted the Spoonfuls,' 'Why Frog and Snake Never Play Together,' and 'How Animals Got Their Tails.'

Presents eighteen traditional tales from West Africa, including 'The Tortoise and the Leopard,' 'The Story of Muhammadu,' and 'The Magic Crocodile.'

A collection of twenty-three tales involving Aj'ap'a, a tortoise with human traits who has relationships with an assortment of animal and human characters (view table of contents)

Product Description: A fascinating collection of the oral literature of an ancient people. This book is an important and delightful contribution to mythology, folklore, history, African culture and black studies. Included in the appendix are some Yoruba songs and tales known among African-Americans communites in the West Indies and Brazil...read more

This collection of eleven tales from Nigeria includes 'The Boy and the Leopard,' 'The King and the Ring,' and 'The Reward of Treachery'

Product Description: This collection of myths - some of them simple, strong pieces of narrative, others mysterious, poetic and often amusing - illustrate the religion and thought of the West African Yoruba People. Interspersed with drawings by Georgina Beier of Yoruba motifs and collected and translated by authors and artists long-familiar with Yoruba culture, the myths are compiled and introduced here by Ulli Beier, who himself holds two Yoruba chieftaincy titles...read more

Product Description: Collection of Nigerian Folk Tales

Two Nigerian folktales explain why flamingos stand on one leg and why spiders are often found under stones.