Black Folk Tales
This book contains 13 Hausa folktales from Nigeria as retold and also illustrated by Erick Berry, the pen name of Evangel Alenna Champlin who lived in West Africa in the 1920s. While in Africa, she met and married Oswald Best, who was an official in the British Civil Service. They later moved to the United States, and Erick Berry went on to become a well known children's book illustrator as well as an author. Both she and her husband wrote books about Africa; in addition to this book of African folktales, Berry is also the author of Girls in Africa, and she did the illustrations for her husband's book, Garram the Hunter: A Boy of the Hill Tribes, a novel also set in Nigeria.
- Summary by Laura Gibbs
Genre(s): Culture & Heritage Fiction, Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales, Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales
Language: English
| Section | Chapter | Reader | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Play 00 | Foreword | laurakgibbs |
00:02:43 |
| Play 01 | The Story of Solomon and the Birds | laurakgibbs |
00:04:27 |
| Play 02 | The Town Where No One Slept | laurakgibbs |
00:04:39 |
| Play 03 | The Spider and the Two Chiefs | laurakgibbs |
00:06:49 |
| Play 04 | Why the Hartebeest Always Has Tears in His Eyes | laurakgibbs |
00:02:51 |
| Play 05 | Why the Owl Flies Only at Night | laurakgibbs |
00:02:02 |
| Play 06 | The Water of Ladi | laurakgibbs |
00:05:04 |
| Play 07 | The Goat and the Hyena | laurakgibbs |
00:02:57 |
| Play 08 | The Magpies and the Greedy Spider | laurakgibbs |
00:02:47 |
| Play 09 | The Maiden and the Sarakin Pumpkin | laurakgibbs |
00:03:23 |
| Play 10 | The Lion and the Squirrel | laurakgibbs |
00:03:06 |
| Play 11 | Another Story of the Spider | laurakgibbs |
00:05:28 |
| Play 12 | The Ram and the Youngest Son | laurakgibbs |
00:07:01 |
| Play 13 | The Lazy Frog | laurakgibbs |
00:01:40 |