JAMBO!!
This site has been created because I want to interest my nieces and nephews in stories from our African heritage. Yet, I've quickly realized that I have to become familiar with these stories myself to encourage them.
To help me, the kids and perhaps you discover these wonderful folk stories, I have begun searching Amazon.com and will add links to this page as I go.
In the meantime, I have put a button at the bottom of this page that will browse Amazon.com for you. Please help yourself. Thanks.
 Anansi the Spider : A Tale from the Ashantiby Gerald McDermott (ill.) A story about the wise, funny, mischievous, and loveable folk hero who pops up in traditional Ashanti tales from Ghana, in West Africa
Nearly 100 stories from over 40 tribe-related myths of creation, tales of epic deeds, ghost stories and tales set in both the animal and human realms |
 The Adventures of Spider : West African Folktalesby Joyce Cooper Arkhurst, Jerry Pinkney (Illustrator) The main character, Spider, will be easily recognizable to those children already familiar with the Anansi stories.
Writers from 12 African countries draw on a rich oral tradition to tell stories that range from animal fables to trickster stories and also include a few contemporary urban tales of realism and mystery |
African Folktales : Traditional Stories of the Black World 
Tales from Africa
 Her Stories : African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales by Virginia Hamilton, et al 17 pugnacious and heroic female characters in a collection of tales that demonstrates the breadth of African-American cultural tradition
10 spine-tinglers range from straight-up ghost stories to eerie narratives in this winner of the 1993 Coretta Scott King Award |
 African American Folktales : Stories from Black Traditions in the New World by Roger D. Abrahams (ed) More than 100 tales, ranging from the earthy comedy of tricksters to stories explaining how the world was created and got to be the way it is, to moral fables that tell of encounters between masters and slaves
The author expresses hope and courage in these stories, prayers, and songs on audio cassette |
The Dark-Thirty : Southern Tales of the Supernatural
Um Hmm : A Feast of African American Stories, Songs, & Poems