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African Folktales In the Series of "Desh Videsh Ki Lok Kathaayen", there are several books which contain some African folktales in general and many folktales from its various countries, such as Egypt, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Zambia, Zimbabwe etc. Africa is the second largest continent after Asia. It is made up of more than 50 countries. Long before it was difficult to find published material on and from African countries. Now at least some published material is available. Below is the list of books published on African folktales --
1. Outa Karel's Stories: South African Folk-lore Tales.
2. Old Hendrik's Tales
3. Folk Stories From Southern Nigeria.
4. Zanzibar Tales
These titles are given on
http://www.worldoftales.com/African_folktales.html I have some more titles below. They are a little bit recent and modern --
5. Fourteen Hundred Cowries: traditional stories of the Yoruba.
6. The Lion’s whiskers: tales of high Africa.
7. Ethiopian Folktales.
8. The First Adventures of Spider: West African folktales.
Nigeria is the largest populated country of Africa, and the 7th largest populated country of the world.
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