African Oral Tradition, History, & Literature at Columbia University Libraries

This bibliography on African oral tradition, history, and literature in translation—to be frequently updated— represents highlights from the last fifty years of book acquisitions and other resources available at Columbia University Libraries. For works in African languages, see also Guides to African Languages Taught at Columbia.

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Contents Arranged by Theme & Country/Region

Country/Region Oral Tradition
Sources		 Oral History
Sources		 Reference Related Tales and
Proverbs
Algeria — — — ○ ○
Angola ○ ○ — ○ ○
Benin ○ — — — ○
Botswana ○ — — — ○
Burkina Faso ○ — — — ○
Burundi ○ — — — ○
Cameroon ○ — ○ ○ ○
Cape Verde — — — ○ —
Central African Republic — — — — ○
Chad — — — — ○
Comoros ○ — — — —
Congo — — — — ○
Cote d'Ivoire ○ — — ○ ○
DR Congo ○ — — ○ ○
Egypt ○ — — ○ ○
Equatorial Guinea — — — — ○
Ethiopia — — — ○ ○
Gabon ○ — — ○ ○
Gambia ○ — — ○ ○
Ghana ○ ○ — ○ ○
Guinea ○ ○ — ○ ○
Guinea-Bissau ○ — — — —
Kenya ○ ○ — ○ ○
Lesotho ○ — — — —
Liberia ○ — — ○ ○
Libya — — — — ○
Madagascar ○ — — ○ ○
Malawi — — ○ ○ ○
Mali ○ ○ — ○ ○
Mauritius — — — — ○
Mauritania — — — — ○
Morocco ○ — — — ○
Mozambique — — — ○ ○
Namibia ○ ○ — ○ ○
Niger ○ — — ○ ○
Nigeria ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
Rwanda ○ ○ ○ — ○
São Tomé &
Príncipe		 — — — ○ ○
Senegal ○ ○ — ○ ○
Seychelles — — — — ○
Sierra Leone ○ — — ○ ○
Somalia ○ — — ○ ○
South Africa ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
Sudan ○ ○ — — ○
Swaziland ○ ○ — — ○
Tanzania ○ ○ — ○ ○
Togo ○ — — ○ ○
Tunisia ○ — — ○ —
Uganda ○ — — ○ ○
Zambia — — ○ ○ ○
Zimbabwe ○ ○ — — ○
Central Africa — ○ ○ ○ ○
East Africa ○ — — ○ ○
Indian Ocean — — — — ○
North Africa — — — ○ ○
Southern Africa ○ — ○ ○ ○
West Africa — — ○ ○ ○
Africa—General ○ — ○ ○ ○
Diaspora — ○ ○ ○ ○

Oral Tradition—Sources

Angola

  • Bollig, Michael (comp.) When war came the cattle slept-- : Himba oral traditions ; in collaboration with Tjakazapi Janson Mbunguha. History, cultural traditions, and innovations in Southern Africa ; v. 1.
    Köln : R. Köppe, c1997. (337 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR358.82.H55 W54 1997
  • Hochegger, Hermann. Le conflit père-fils dans les traditions orales de l'entre Kwango-Kasai : variantes de 1906 à 1997. CEEBA Série II ; vol. 126, 1999. [Bandundu, Democratic Republic of Congo] : CEEBA, [1999] (122 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR357.8 .H628 1999g

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Benin

  • Brand, Roger. Cultes vodoun et textes oraux des Wéménou du sud Bénin. Languages of the world. Text collections ; 19. München : Lincom Europa, 2000. (220 p.)
    Butler Stacks: BL2490 .B656 2000g
  • Capo-Chichi, Gisèle et Ana Tognola (eds.) Béhanzin, traditions orales. Cahiers de la Fondation. [Cotonou, Bénin] : Fondation Zinsou, c2006. ([32] p. ; plus 1 sound disc)
    Music: ML3760 .B44 2006g, with disc
  • Karl, Emmanuel. Traditions orales au Dahomey-Bénin. Niamey : Centre régional de documentation pour la tradition orale, 1974. (420 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT541 .K37

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Botswana

  • Schapera, Isaac. Praise-poems of Tswana chiefs ; trans. and ed. with an introduction and notes, by
    I. Schapera. 2nd South African impression. Cape Town : Oxford University Press, 1988, c1965. (255 p.)
    Offsite: PL8651.7 .S3 1988g
    African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler (1965 edition): PL8651.7 .S3

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Burkina Faso

  • Irwin, Paul. Liptako speaks : history from oral tradition in Africa. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1981. (221 p.)
    Barnard & Butler Stacks: DT553.U79 L564
  • Kersalé, Patrick and Biwanté Kambou. Burkina Faso : parole d'ancêtre lobi : sorcières et araignées. Collection "Parole d'ancêtre". Fontenay-sous-Bois, France : Anako éditions, 1999. (158 p. ; 1 sound disc)
    Butler Stacks: DT555.45.L63 K47 1999g (plus CD-ROM)
  • Minougou, Zacharie. Au carrefour des histoires : traditions orales de la région Yana (Burkina Faso) ; [éditées et commentées par Andrea Reikat]. Afrika-Archiv ; 4. Veröffentlichungen des Frobenius-Instituts an der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität zu Frankfurt/Main. Köln : Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2004. (113 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR351.7 .M56 2004g

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Burundi

  • Ndoricimpa, L. et Cl. Guillet. L'Arbre-mémoire: traditions orales du Burundi. Hommes et sociétés. Paris : Karthala, 1984. (249 p., [8] p. of plates)
    Butler Stacks: DT450.54 .A72 1984
  • Vansina, Jan. La légende du passé. Traditions orales du Burundi. Tervuren : Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale, 1972. (257 p.)
    Butler Stacks: 302.9765 T277 no.16

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Cameroon

  • Binam Bikoï, Charles. Mpomo, le prince de la grande rivière: epopée nzimé du Cameroun : recueillie auprès de Daniel Minkang. Tradition orale. Paris : IRD éditions : Karthala, c2007. (469 p.)
    Offsite: PL8406.56 .B56 2007g
  • Chem-Langhëë, Bongfen and Verkijika G. Fanso. Royal succession in the African kingdom of Nso' : a study in oral historiography ; [with a foreword by Sally Chilver]. Lewiston, NY : Edwin Mellen Press, c2008. (144 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT571.N74 R69 2008
  • Eno Belinga, S.M. L'Épopée camerounaise, mvet : Moneblum, ou, L'Homme bleu. Yaoundé : Université de Yaoundé, 1978. (287 p.)
    African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: PQ3986.Z5 E66 1978
  • Mbeng, André. Recueil de chansons épiques du peuple bassa du Cameroun : les murmures de l'arc-en-ciel. Etudes africaines. Paris : L'Harmattan, c2007. (196 p.)
    Offsite: PL8065.7 .M34 2007

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Comoros

  • Jean-François Gourlet. Chroniques mahoraises; [avant-propos de Claude Allibert]. Paris : L'Harmattan, c2001. (221 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT469.C7 G68 2001g
  • Said Ahmed, Moussa. Guerriers, princes et poètes aux Comores dans la littérature orale ; [préface de Sophie Blanchy]. Archipel des Comores. Paris : L'Harmattan, c2000. (297 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR360.C58 S36 2000

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Côte d'Ivoire

  • Annales de l'Université d'Abidjan. Série J, Traditions orales. 2 vols. Abidjan, Côte-d'Ivoire : L'Université, [c1977-]
    [Includes "Table ronde sur les origines de Kong" (1975 : Kong, Côte d'Ivoire)].
    Butler Stacks: GR351.8 .U6, t.1-2

DR Congo

  • Biebuyck, Daniel P. Hero and chief : epic literature from the Banyanga, Zaire Republic. Berkeley : University of California Press, c1978. (320 p.)
    Butler Stacks: PL8592.N439 M933
  • Biebuyck, Daniel & Kahombo C. Mateene (eds. & trans.) The Mwindo epic from the Banyanga (Congo Republic). Berkeley : University of California Press, 1969. (213 p.)
    Offsite & Butler Stacks: PL8593.8 .M9
  • Biebuyck, Daniel et Kahombo Mateene (eds.) Mwendo : une épopée nyanga (R.D. Congo) ; [traduite en français par Daniel Biebuyck, Mihaela Bacou et Brunhilde Biebuyck]. Paris : Association Classiques Africains, c2002. (261 p.)
    Butler Stacks: PL8592.N439 M914 2002g
  • Cyovo, Katende. Source : traditions orales de la Zone de Gandajika (Rép. du Zaïre). Ceeba publications. Sér. 2; v. 72. Bandundu [Zaire]: CEEBA, 1981. (136 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GN654 .A152 v.72
  • Haler, Maria. Littérature orale africaine : quelques mythes et contes du Zaïre. Recherches africaines. Lubumbashi, Zaïre : Éditions Saint-Paul, Afrique, [1980]. (40 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR357.8 .H34
  • Hochegger, Hermann. Manières de table: risques et périls pour les insolents : récits congolais de tradition orale de 1906 à 1997. CEEBA publications. Série II; vol. 130. Mödling : Antenne d'Autriche, 2000. (218 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GT2853.C74 H63 2000g
  • Maalu-Bungi, Crispin. Poésie orale congolaise. Collection "Travaux et recherches". Kinshasa/Gombe : Centre de linguistique théorique et appliquée, 2002. (210 p.)
    Butler Stacks: PL8404.A2 M33 2002g
  • N'Sanda Wamenka. Récits épiques des Lega du Zaïre. Annalen Menswetenschappen = Annales sciences humaines ; vol. 135. [Niamey, Niger] : Agence de coopération culturelle et technique, 1992.
    Butler Stacks: GR357.82.R53 N73 1992
  • Samwan Wicimeeji. Notes sur les villages fortifiés des Iin-Kanincin (Rép. du Zaïre). Le calao et la pintade : traditions orales de la collectivité de Kanincin. CEEBA publications. Série II; vol. 101. Bandundu, République du Zaïre : CEEBA, 1989. (128 p.) Lunda
    Butler Stacks: DT665.K25 S26 1989g
  • Verbeek, Léon. Mythe et culte de Kipimpi, Rép. du Zaïre. Bandundu, République du Zaïre : Ceeba, 1982.
    (237 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GN654 .A152 v.80

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Egypt

  • Reynolds, Dwight Fletcher. Heroic poets, poetic heroes : the ethnography of performance in an Arabic oral epic tradition.Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1995. (243 p.)
    Butler Stacks & Offsite: GN648 .R49 1995

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Gabon

  • Ndoutoume, Daniel Assoumou. Du Mvett: L'orage : processus de démocratisation conté par un diseur de Mvett ; [préface de Grégoire Biyogo ; présentation de Tsira Ndong Ndoutoume]. Paris : L'Harmattan, c1993. (221 p.)
    Butler Stacks: JQ1875 .A87 1993g
  • Nza-Mateki. Contes et débat traditionnel chez les Punu. [Gabon : s.n., 2003?] (Polypress). (79 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT546.145.P86 N93 2003g

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The Gambia

  • Camara, Sirifo. The epic of Kelefaa Saane ; edited and translated by Sana Camara. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2010. (185 p.)
    [The epic honors the legendary warrior prince of Kaabu and Mandinka cultural hero. It was recorded in the city of Dakar, Senegal, in 1987 by Boundiaye Jiite, an important patron of Senegambian music.]
    Butler Stacks: PL8491.7 .E65 2010
  • Suso, Bamba and Banna Kanute. Sunjata : Gambian versions of the Mande epic ; trans. and annotated by Gordon Innes with the assistance of Bakari Sidibe ; [ed. with a new introduction and additional notes by Lucy Duran and Graham Furniss]. London : Penguin, 1999, c1974.(117 p.)
    Barnard & Butler Stacks: DT532.2 .S87 1999g
    African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: DT532.2 .S87 1999g
  • Wright, Donald R. (Interviewer) Oral traditions from the Gambia. Vol. 1: Mandinka griots ; vol. 2: Family elders. Papers in international studies. Africa series ; no. 37-38. Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Center for International Studies, Africa Program, [1979-].
    Lehman: DT1 .P33 no. 37-38

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Ghana

  • Afriyie, Kwame Dwoben Poku. The legendary Komfo Anokye of the Asante Kingdom. [Ghana] : Oriental Bookshop Agency, c2005. (70 p.)
    Precataloging (Ask at Butler Circulation): 8OCT 17060
  • Daaku, Kwame Yeboah. Denkyira ; Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana ; [conducted, transcribed, and translated by K.Y. Daaku]. UNESCO research project on oral traditions ; no. 2. Niamey, Niger : Organization of African Unity, Centre for Linguistic and Historical Studies by Oral Tradition, 1970.(286 p.)
    Offsite: DT511 .G33
  • Daaku, Kwame Yeboah. Oral traditions of Sefwi. 2 v. UNESCO research project on oral traditions ; no. 4.
    Legon : Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, [1974].
    Butler Stacks: DT510.5 .D32 1974g, 2v.
  • Ofori, Nana Kwame. Okomfo Anokye and the Asante Kingdom. Santasi Ksi [Ghana?] : Babdako Press, [199-?]. (18 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT507 .O46 1990z
  • Owusuh, E.S.K. Oral traditions of Kulamo (Kulango), Bouna and Bondouku. Legon : Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, 1976. (105 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT545.45.K84 O9 1976g
  • Pilaszewicz, Stanislaw. The Zabarma conquest of north-west Ghana and upper Volta : a Hausa narrative "Histories of Samory and Babatu and others" by Mallam Abu. Prace orientalistyczne ; t. 36. Warsaw : Polish Scientific Publishers, 1992. (207 p.)
    African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: DT547.45.Z37 P55 1992
    Butler Stacks: DT547.45.Z34 M35 1992g

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Guinea

  • Conrad, David C. Epic ancestors of the Sunjata era : oral tradition from the Maninka of Guinea ; [illus. by Mohamed Chejan Kromah and Sidiki Doumbia]. [Madison] : African Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison, [1999]. (205 p.)
    African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: GR352.62.M33 E65 1999g
    Butler Stacks: GR352.62.M33 E65 1999g
  • Kouyaté, Ahmadou, Denise Aebersold & Dramane Keita [texte et transcription]. Manden Bori Fasa : récits de chasse : recueillis auprès de Porè Kolon Kulibali, sèrèwa de Baro. Conakry : Bibliothèque franco-guinéenne : IDEC, [1994]. Butler Stacks: GR350.32.M33 M36 1994g
  • N'Daou, Mohamed Saidou. Sangalan oral traditions : history, memories, and social differentiation. Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2005. (271 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT543.45.Y35 N33 2005
  • Niane, D.T. La Guinée maritime : récits et monographies. Documentation historique ; 1. Conakry : Centre de diffusion télé-enseignement, 1970. ([67] leaves)
    Butler Stacks: DT543.65 .G84 1970g

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Guinea-Bissau

  • Ta'rikh Mandinka de Bijini (Guinée-Bissau) : la mémoire des Mandinka et Sòoninkee du Kaabu ; traduction, notes et commentaires par Cornelia Giesing and Valentin Vydrine. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007. (398 p.)
    Butler Stacks & African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: DT543.45.M34 T37 2007

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Kenya

  • Chesaina, Ciarunji. Oral literature of the Embu and Mbeere. Nairobi : East African Educational Publishers, 1997. (211 p.)
    Butler Stacks & African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: GR356.42.E45 S95 1997
  • Chesaina, Ciarunji. Oral literature of the Kalenjin. Nairobi : Heinemann Kenya, 1991. (167 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT429.5.K35 C54 1991g
  • Kabira, Wanjiku Mukabi and Karega Mutahi. Gikuyu oral literature. Nairobi : Heinemann Kenya, 1988. (167 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR356.4 .K3 1988g
  • Kipury, Naomi. Oral literature of the Maasai. Nairobi : East African Educational Publishers, 1983. (233 p.)
    Butler Stacks & African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: GR356.42.M37 K57 1983
  • Odaga, Asenath. Yesterday's today: a study of oral literature. Kisumu [Kenya] : Lake Publishers & Enterprises, 1984. (147 p., [7] leaves of plates)
    Butler Stacks: GR356.4 .O32 1984
  • Were, Gideon S. Western Kenya historical texts : Abaluyia, Teso, and Elgon Kalenjin. Nairobi : East African Literature Bureau [1967].(196 p.)
    Butler Stacks & African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: DT434.E2 A49

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Lesotho

  • Kunene, Daniel P. Heroic poetry of the Basotho. Oxford [Eng.] : Clarendon Press, 1971. (203 p.)
    African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: PL8689.5 .K8
  • Thabane, Motlatsi. Personal testimony as an historical source in Lesotho : some methodological guidelines. [Roma, Lesotho] : National University of Lesotho, 1986. (191 leaves)
    Butler Stacks: DT2606 .T43 1986

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Liberia

  • Jorgbor, Massayan K. and Patrick K. Manjoe. The Lorma ethnic group: origin and culture. Ordinary yet significant steps series. Monrovia, Liberia : Bishop John Collins Teachers College, 2007. (136 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT630.5.L65 J674 2007
  • The Kwa speaking peoples of Liberia. Niamey, Niger : Centre for Linguistic and Historical Studies by Oral Tradition, Organization of African Unity, 1977. (91 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT630 .K85

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Madagascar

  • Claverie, B. and M. Claverie. Angano : contes et histoires de Madagascar ; [préface par Didier Mauro]. Lettres de l'océan Indien. Paris : L'Harmattan, c2006. (202 p.)
    Offsite: GR357 .C538 2006g
  • Fanony, Fulgence. Littérature orale malgache; [préface de Pierre Vérin]. 2 v. Paris : L'Harmattan, 2001.
    Butler Stacks: GR357.2.B48 F36 2001g, v.1-2
  • Haring, Lee [trans. and introd.]. Ibonia : epic of Madagascar. Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press ;
    London : Associated University Presses, c1994. (169 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR357.2.M47 I26 1994
  • McElroy, Colleen J. Over the lip of the world : among the storytellers of Madagascar. Seattle : University of Washington Press, c1999. (216 p., [12] p. of plates)
    Butler Stacks: GR357 .M34 1999
  • Le mythe d'Ibonia ; [présentation de François Noiret ; dessins de Noël Razafintsalama. Antananarivo : Foi et justice, 1993. (267 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR357.2.M47 I263 1993g
  • Noiret, François and Teny Fanolorama Solo-Raharinjanahary. Le mythe d'Ibonia, le grand prince, Madagascar ; [préface de Noël J Gueunier]. Tradition orale. Paris : Karthala, 2008. (491 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR357.2.M47 N65 2008g

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Mali

  • Angenent, Caroline...[et al.]. Les rois des tambours au Haayre : récitée per Aamadu Baa Digi, griot des Fulβe à Dalla (Mali). African sources for African history, v. 3. Leiden ; Boston, MA : Brill, 2003. (182 p.)
    Butler Stacks & African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: DT551.45.F85 R65 2003
  • Bâ, Amadou Hampâté. Kaïdara : récit initiatique peul. Abidjan : Nouvelles Editions Ivoiriennes ; [France] : EDICEF, c1994. (112 p.)
    [French prose version of Fula poetic work of oral tradition.]
    Butler Stacks: PL8184.B3 K314 1994g
  • Bâ, Amadou Hampâté. Njeddo Dewal : mère de la calamité : conte initiatique peul. Abidjan [Ivory Coast] : Nouvelles éditions africaines, c1985. (156 p.)
    Offsite: PL8184.B3 N414 1985g
  • Bâ, Amadou Hampâté et Lilyan Keteloot (éds.) Kaïdara : récit initiatique peul. [Paris] : Julliard, 1969. (181 p.) [French and Fula parallel texts.]
    African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler (1969 ed.): PL8184 .K3 1969
  • Bâ, Amadou Hampâté et Germaine Dieterlen. Koumen : texte initiatique des pasteurs Peul. Paris : EHESS, 2009. (95 p.)
    African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: DT547.45.F84 K68 2009g
    Butler Stacks (1961 ed.): 302.08 P2184 new ser.:no.1
  • Banbera, Tayiru. A state of intrigue : the epic of Bamana Segu according to Tayiru Banbera ; [ed. by David C. Conrad ; transcribed and translated with the assistance of Soumaila Diakité]. Union académique internationale fontes historiae Africanae. Series Varia ; 6. Oxford ; New York : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, c1990. (360 p.)
    African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: On Order
    Butler Stacks: DT551.45.B35 B36 1990g
  • Cissé, Youssouf et Wa Kamissoko. La grande geste du Mali : des origines à la fondation de l'Empire : traditions de Krina aux colloques de Bamako. Paris : Editions Karthala : Association Arsan, c1988. (426 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT551.45.D64 C57 1988
  • Cissé, Youssouf et Wa Kamissoko. La grande geste du Mali. Tome 2, Soundjata, la gloire du Mali. Paris : Editions Karthala : Association Arsan, c1991. (305 p., [12] p. of plates)
    DT551.45.D64 C573 1991g
  • Conrad, David C. Somono Bala of the Upper Niger : river people, charismatic bards, and mischievous music in a West African culture. African sources for African history ; v. 1. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2002. (160 p.) [Ségou]
    Butler Stacks & African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: DT551.45.S65 C65 2002
  • Courlander, Harold ; with Ousmane Sako. The heart of the ngoni : heroes of the African kingdom of Segu. New York : Crown, c1982. (178 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR350.32.B3 H47 1982
  • Dantioko, Oudiary Makan. Soninkara tarixinu = Récits historiques du pays Soninké. Niamey : Organisation de l'unité africaine, Centre d'études linguistiques et historiques par tradition orale, [1985] (343 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT549.45.S66 D36 1985
  • La Geste de Ségou ; racontée par des griots bambara; traduite et éditée par Gérard Dumestre. [Paris] : A. Colin, c1979. (419 p. + 1 sound disc)
    Butler Stacks: PL8049.B39 G4 (plus CD-ROM)
  • La Geste de Ségou : épopée Bambara ; recueillie et traduite en français facile par G. Dumestre ; adaptée par E. Armand ; [illus. et couverture, Francine Baillon]. Abidjan [Ivory Coast] : CEDA, [1977?] (77 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR351.82.B34 G4
  • Graines de parole : puissance du verbe et traditions orales : textes offerts à Geneviève Calame-Griaule ; réunis par l'équipe de recherche du C.N.R.S. Langage et culture en Afrique de l'Ouest. Paris : Editions du Centre national de la recherche scientifique : Diffusion, Presses du CNRS, 1989.(441 p.)
    Offsite: P35 .G67 1989
  • Johnson, John William and Fa-Digi Sisòkò. Son-Jara : the Mande epic ; transcribed and translated with the assistance of Charles S. Bird ...[et al]. 3rd ed. African epic series. Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, 2003. (331 p.)
    [Mandekan/English edition with notes and commentary ; see also: Sisòkò below]
    Butler Stacks & African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: PL8491.9.E63 J613 2003
    Music Stacks: PL8491.9.E63 J613 2003
    Barnard, Butler Reserves, & Offsite (1992 ed., English only): PL8491.9.E3 J6 1992
  • Keïta! : l'héritage du griot = The heritage of the griot. Videorecording. Dani Kouyaté, dir. ; AFIX
    Productions ; Les Productions de la Lanterne ; Sahélis Productions ; L'Etat de Burkina ; scénario et réalisation, Dani Kouyaté scripte, Véronique Paris. San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, c1995.
    [About 94 minutes in length, based on the Sunjata epic, with "historical" re-enactments, and an exploration of the role of "traditional" knowledge in contemporary Africa.]
    Butler Media Reserves: DVD11620 & DVD11621
    Barnard Media: DVD PL8491.9.E63 K45 1995g
  • Kersalé, Patrick and Zakari Saye. Mali : parole d'ancêtre dogon : l'écho de la falaise. Collection "Parole d'ancêtre." Fontenay-sous-Bois, France : Anako, 2001. (152 p.)
    Music: DT551.45.D64 K47 2001g
  • Konaté, Doulaye. Travail de mémoire et construction nationale au Mali ; [préface de Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch]. Paris : Harmattan, c2006. (121 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT551.4 .K66 2006
  • Kourouma, Samaké Youssouf. Le Mandé de nos ancêtres : selon le Gbélin ou tradition orale. Paris : L'Harmattan, 2004. (99 p.)
    African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: GR352.82.M34 K68 2004g
    Butler Stacks: GR352.82.M34 K68 2004g
  • Organisation de l'Unité Africaine. Les Peuls du Manding. [Niamey] : Centre d'études linguistique et historique par tradition orale, [1974?]. (138 p.)
    Offsite: DT547.42 .K35
  • Seydou, Christiane (éd.) La poésie mystique peule du Mali ; [introduction de Louis Brenner]. Tradition orale. Paris : Éditions Karthala, c2008. (450 p.)
    Butler Stacks & African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: PL8049.B37 P64 2008g
  • Silâmaka & Poullôri : récit épique peul ; raconté par Tinguidji; édité par Christiane Seydou. [Paris] : A. Colin, [c1972] (277 p., [4] leaves of plates + 3 phonodisc.)
    Butler Stacks: PL8184.T5 S5 1972 (plus 3 discs)

  • Sisòkò, Fa-Digi. Son-Jara : the Mande epic ; performance by Jeli Fa-Digi Sisòkò.African epic series. Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press : AuralLabs, c2004. 2 sound discs (240 min.)
    Music Sound Recordings: CD8947, disc 1-2
  • Yeelen = Brightness. Videorecording. Written, produced, and directed by Souleymane Cissé. New York : Kino on Video, c2002.[About 105 minutes in length; adaptation of an oral epic of the Bamana people, set in the Mali Empire of the 13th century.]
    Butler Media Reserves: DVD12128
    Barnard Media: DVD DT551.45.B35 Y33 2002g
    Barnard Media (VHS version): VIDEO DT551.45.B35 Y33 1987g

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Morocco

  • Pandolfo, Stefania. Impasse of the angels : scenes from a Moroccan space of memory. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1997. (389 p.)
    Barnard Course Reserves: GN649.M65 P28 1997 Butler Stacks: GN649.M65 P28 1997
  • Prémare, A.-L. de [recueil, transcription, traduction et annotation.] La tradition orale du Mejdûb : récits et quatrains inédits. Archives maghrébines. Aix-en-Provence : Edisud, c1986. (379 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR353.3 .T73 1986

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Namibia

  • Ohly, Rajmund. Herero ecology : the literary impact. Orientalia Polona. Warszawa : Academic Publishing House, 2000. (279 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR358.82.H45 O37 2000

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Niger

  • Bâ, Amadou Hampaté. Jaawambe; traditions historiques des peul jaawambe. [Niamey, Niger] : Regional Documentation Centre for Oral Tradition [1972?] (89 p.)
    African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: DT530 .B23
  • Bisilliat, Jeanne. Les zamu; ou, Poèmes sur les noms; la tradition orale dans la société Songhay-Zarma; recueillis, traduits et édités par J. Bisilliat & D. Laya. Niamey, C.N.R.S.H. [i.e Centre nigèrien de recherches en sciences humaines, 1972]. (160 p.)
    Offsite: PL8685.95.Z3 B5
  • Bornand, Sandra. Le discours du griot généalogiste chez les Zarma du Niger. Tradition orale. Paris : Karthala, c2005. (457 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT547.45.Z37 B67 2005g
  • The epic of Askia Mohammed ; recorded, translated, edited, and annotated by Thomas A. Hale ; recounted by Nouhou Malio with the assistance of Mounkaila Maiga...[et al.]. African epic series. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1996. (88 p.)
    Butler Stacks: PL8685.9.M36 E5 1996
  • Griottes of the Sahel : female keepers of the Songhay oral tradition in Niger. Videorecording. Thomas A. Hale, producer/writer ; Marie Hornbein, director/editor ; Center for Instructional Design and Integrated Technologies. University Park, Penn. : PennState Audio-visual Services, c1991. [12 minutes in length.]
    Barnard Media: VIDEO DT547.45.S65 G74 1991g
    Offsite (Butler Media Reserves): VIDEORES00467
  • Katsina : traditions historiques des Katsinaawaa après la Jihad ; présentées par Issaka Dankoussou.Niamey : Centre régional de documentation pour la tradition orale : Centre nigérien de recherche en sciences humaines, [198-?](460 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT515.9.K35 K38 1980z
  • Laya, Diouldé. Traditions historiques de l'Anzuru ; enquête de Julde Layya ; informations de Alfa Suley Yuusufu (Niamey, 21-7-1969) ; transcription-traduction, Julde Layya. Niamey [Niger] : Centre régional de documentation pour la tradition orale [et] Centre nigérien de recherche en sciences humaines, [1970?]
    (53 p.)
    Offsite: DT551.42 .L39
  • Mohammadou, Eldridge (comp.) L'histoire des Peuls Feroobe du Diamaré : Maroua et Pette ; traditions transmises par Bakari Yaya...[et al.] ; recueillies, traduites et editées par Eldridge Mohammadou. [Niamey : 1970] (482 p.)
    Offsite: DT515.9.A33 M63
  • Regional Documentation Centre for Oral Tradition. Histoire du Dawra, traditions historiques du Dawra ; [par Makada Ibira de Kantché ; transcription-traduction Issaka Dankousso].Niamey : Centre régional de documentation pour la tradition orale, 1970. (39 leaves)
    African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: DT547.2 .R43
  • Sorko, Dawda. Le mythe de Dongo ; raconté par Dawda Sorko ; film et commentaires, Jean Rouch ; enquête, Damouré Zika ; transcription et traduction, Diouldé Laya. Niamey : Organisation de l'unité africaine, Centre d'études linguistiques et historiques par tradition orale, [1983]. (35 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR351.92.S65 S67 1983
  • Soumalia, Hammadou, Moussa Hamidou, & Diouldé Laya. Traditions des Songhay de Tera, Niger ; [préface de Jean Rouch]. Paris : Editions Karthala, c1998. (301 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT547.45.S65 S68 1998

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Nigeria

  • Chukwuma, Helen. Igbo oral literature: theory and tradition. Port Harcourt [Nigeria] : Belpot, 1994. (324 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR351.32.I34 C58 1994g
  • Clark-Bekederemo, J.P. (ed.) The Ozidi saga ; collected and translated from the Ijo̲ of O̲kabou Ojobolo by J. P. Clark. Ibadan : Ibadan University Press, 1977. (408 p. )
    Offsite & African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: PL8276.9.O4 A23
  • Harunah, Hakeem B. Nigerian oral traditions and oral history : their relevance to the nation's vision 2010 programme. [Lagos, Nigeria?] : Nigerian Association for Oral History and Traditions (NAOHAT), 2000. (57 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT515.4 .H36 2000
  • Ògúndejì, Philip Adédọ́tun. Introduction to Yoruba oral literature = Ìfáàrà sí lítíréṣọ̀ alohùn Yorùbá. Ibadan : Dept. of Adult Education, University of Ibadan, 1991. (144 p.)
    Butler Stacks: PL8823.5 .O355 1991g
  • Ogunyemi, Yemi D. The oral traditions in Ile-Ife : the Yoruba people and their book of enlightenment. Bethesda : Academica Press, c2010. (176 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR351.32.Y56 O48 2010
  • Okafor, Amanke. The Awka people. [Onitsha, Nigeria : Chudon Graphic Prints, 1992]. (159 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT515.45.A94 O42 1992g
  • Schaefer, Ronald P. and Francis O. Egbokhare (eds.). Oral tradition narratives of the Emai people. Forschungen zu Sprachen und Kulturen Afrikas ; Bd. 5 = Research on African languages and cultures ; v. 5 = Recherches sur les langues et cultures africaines ; v. 5. Münster : Lit Verlag ; Piscataway, NJ : Distributed in North America by Transaction Publishers, [2000]. (1261 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR351.32.E53 O73 2000g
  • Sheriff, Bosoma and Wakil Aisami Wasaram. The wisdom of Mai Derma. Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria : Dept. of Kanuri, School of Languages, Kashim Ibrahim College of Education, c1996. (31 leaves) Butler Stacks: GR351.32.K35 S54 1996g
  • Umeasiegbu, Rems Nna [comp.]. Words are sweet : Igbo oral literature. Traditional African library ; 2. Nairobi, Kenya : East African Pub. House, 1980. (137 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR351.32.I34 W67

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Rwanda

  • Berger, Jean Du & Simone Dubois-Ouellet. Collecte de la tradition orale au Rwanda : rapport de la Mission faite au Rwanda du 21 Juillet au 13 Août 1987, suivi de la grille rwandaise des pratiques culturelles.
    Kigali [Rwanda] : Ministère de l'Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche Scientifique, 1989. (152 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR47.R95 D8 1989g

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Senegal

  • Caam, Birahim. The epic of El Hadj Umar Taal of Fuuta ; recounted in Wolof by Birahim Caam, goldsmith/storyteller, Town of Rosso-Sénégal (Saturday 12 July 1997, 3-7 p.m.) ; recorded, transcribed and translated into English, and annotated by Samba Diop. Madison, WI : African Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison, c2000. (80 p.)
    Butler Stacks & African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: GR352.72.W64 C33 2000g
  • Cissé, Momar. Parole chantée et communication sociale chez les Wolof du Sénégal. Paris : L'Harmattan, c2009.
    Butler Stacks & African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: PL8785.95.S46 C57 2009g
  • Diamanka, Diawné. Le troupeau des songes : le sacrifice du fils et l'enfant prophète dans les traditions des Peuls du Fouladou : récits; [recueillis, transcrits et commentés par Alain Le Pichon, Souleymane Baldé].
    Paris : Editions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, c1990. (357 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR350.32.F82 D53 1990
  • Dieng, Bassirou. L'épopée du Kajoor ; avec la collaboration de l'Ifan Cheikh Anta Diop. Paris : Agence de coopération culturelle et technique ; Dakar : Centre africain d'animation et d'échanges culturels ; 1993.
    (473 p.)
    African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: PL8785.7 .D54 1993g
  • Diop, Papa Samba. The oral history and literature of the Wolof people of Waalo, northern Senegal : the master of the word (griot) in the Wolof tradition. Lewiston, N.Y. : E. Mellen Press, c1995. (389 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR352.72.W64 D56 1995
  • L'épopée de Samba Guéladiégui : version orale peul de Pahel ; recueillie et traduite en français par
    Amadou Ly ; [préface de Lilyan Kesteloot]. [Paris?] : Editions nouvelles du sud : IFAN : UNESCO, c1991.
    (199 p.)
    Butler Stacks: PL8184.P34 F2 1991g
  • Le Fantang : poèmes mythiques des bergers peuls : textes de la tradition orale peule ; édités par Siré Mamadou Ndongo. Paris : Karthala, c1986. (204 p.)
    Offsite: PL8184.A2 F36 1986
  • Mbothiel, Sidi. Le vent de la razzia, ou, Les aventures de Amadou Sam Polel et de Goumalel : deux récits épiques peuls et français, enregistrés auprès de Sidi Mbothiel, du village de Fété Bowé, Matam ; Mamadou Lamine Ngaïdé. Dakar : IFAN, Département des littératures africaines, [1983]. (161 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR350.32.F82 M37 1983
  • Récits épiques toucouleurs : la vache, le livre, la lance ; recueillis, traduits et présentés par Gérard Meyer.
    Paris : Karthala : A.C.C.T., c1991. (246 p.)
    Offsite: PL8184.Z95 R43 1991
  • Sow, Abdoul Aziz. La poésie orale peule : Mauritanie-Sénégal : essai de typologie et choix de textes. Paris : L'Harmattan, c2009. (417 p.)
    [In French, with Fula texts accompanied by French translation.]
    African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: PL8183.5 .S69 2009g
    Butler Stacks: On Order
  • Tandia, Aliou Kissima. Poésie orale soninké et éducation traditionnelle. [Dakar : Les Nouvelles éditions africaines du Sénégal, 1999?]. (334 p.)
    Butler Stacks: PL8686.8 .T36 1999g

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Sierra Leone

  • Fyle, C. Magbaily. Oral traditions of Sierra Leone. History (Niamey, Niger) ; 3. Niamey : Organization of African Unity, Centre for Linguistic and Historical Studies by Oral Traditions, [1979]. (69 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR352.3 .F95 1979

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Somalia

  • Andrzejewski, B.W. and I.M. Lewis (eds.) Somali poetry : an introduction. Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1964. (167 p.)
    Milstein Stacks & African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: PJ2533.5 .A5
  • An Anthology of Somali poetry ; trans. by B.W. Andrzejewski, with Sheila Andrzejewski. Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, 1993. (111 p.)
    Offsite & African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: PJ2534.Z95 E5 1993
  • Kapteijns, Lidwien & Maryan Omar Ali. Women's voices in a man's world : women and the pastoral tradition in Northern Somali orature, c. 1899-1980. Studies in African literature. Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, c1999. (224 p.)
    Barnard & Butler Stacks: GR356.3 .K36 1999
    E-book

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South Africa

  • Deacon, Janette and Thomas A. Dowson (eds.). Voices from the past: /Xam Bushmen and the Bleek and Lloyd Collection. The Khoisan heritage series. Johannesburg : Witwatersrand University Press, 1996. (300 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT1058.S36 V65 1996
  • Fraser, Valda. Zulu imilolozelo as children's poetry. [Durban? : s.n., 1995?]. (72 p.)
    Butler Stacks: PL8844.F73 Z85 1994a
  • Gunner, Liz and Mafika Gwala (trans. & ed.) Musho! : Zulu popular praises. East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 1991. (237 p., [12] p. of plates)
    Butler Stacks & African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: PL8844.A2 M87 1991g
  • James, Alan. [versions with commentary] The first Bushman's path: stories, songs and testimonies of the /Xam of the northern Cape. Pietermaritzburg [South Africa] : University of Natal Press, 2001. (269 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT1768.S36 J36 2001
  • Scheub, Harold (ed.) South African Voices. 3 vols. University of Wisconsin Digital Collections. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Libraries, 2006.
    [Includes: "A Long Time Passed, Created in Olden Times, and The Way We Travelled: Oral History and Poetry," recorded in 1960s and 1970s.]
  • Watson, Stephen. Song of the broken string: after the /Xam bushmen : poems from a lost oral tradition. Riverdale-on-Hudson, NY : Sheep Meadow Press, 1995. (75 p.)
    Butler Stacks: PR9369.3.W37 R47 1995
  • Zenani, Nongenile Masithathu. The world and the word : tales and observations from the Xhosa oral tradition ; [collected and edited, with an introduction, commentaries, and annotations by Harold Scheub]. Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c1992. (499 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR359.2.X64 Z46 1992

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Sudan

  • Jacobsen, Frode F. Theories of sickness and misfortune among the Hadandowa Beja of the Sudan : narratives as points of entry into Beja cultural knowledge. London ; New York : Kegan Paul International, 1998. (366 p.)
    Lehman: DT155.2.H32 J33 1998

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Swaziland

  • Swaziland Oral History Project. In pursuit of Swaziland's precolonial past : kulandza umlandvo. Manzini, Swaziland : Macmillan Boleswa, 1990. (103 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT2765 .I55 1990g

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Tanzania

  • Shetler, Jan Bender. Telling our own stories : local histories from South Mara, Tanzania. African sources for African history, v. 4. Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, 2003. (334 p.)
    African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: DT449.M368 S54 2003g
    Butler Stacks: DT449.M365 S53 2003g

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Togo

  • Tcham, Badjow. Histoire et traditions du Nord-Togo. Les Cours de l'UB. Série Histoire ; no 3. Lomé, Togo : Presses de l'UB, 1997. (99 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT582.9.N67 T28 1997g

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Tunisia

  • Dakhlia, Jocelyne. L'oubli de la cité: la mémoire collective à l'épreuve du lignage dans le Jérid tunisien. Textes à l'appui. Série Anthropologie. Paris : Découverte, 1990. (325 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT252 .D34 1990g
  • Galley, Micheline et Abderrahman Ayoub (eds.) Histoire des Beni Hilal et de ce qui leur advint dans leur marche vers l'ouest : versions tunisiennes de la Geste hilalienne. [Paris] : A. Colin, 1983. (254 p.)
    Offsite: PJ8252 .H57 1983

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Uganda

  • Cohen, David William. Towards a reconstructed past : historical texts from Busoga, Uganda. Fontes historiae Africanae ; Series varia ; 3. Oxford ; New York : Published for the British Academy by the Oxford University Press, c1986. (363 p.)
    African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: DT433.29.B88 T68 1986g
  • Kagwa, Apolo, Sir. The book of the Ganda clans. [Kampala : Makerere College, Dept. of History, 196-?].
    (111 leaves)
    African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: DT433.29.B8 K313 1960z
  • Kagwa, Apolo, Sir. The kings of Buganda ; translated and edited by M.S.M. Kiwanuka. Historical texts of eastern and central Africa ; 1. Nairobi : East African Pub. House, [1971]. (256 p.)
    Butler Stacks & African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler:DT433.29.B8 K3413

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Zimbabwe

  • Fortune, G. (ed.). Ngano. Salisbury, Zimbabwe : Mercury Press, [1980-]
    Butler Stacks: GR358.62.M34 N48 1980
  • Gandari, J.O. [comp. and trans.] and A.J.B. Hughes [ed.] Duma texts. Salisbury : Tribal Areas of Rhodesia Research Foundation, 1975. (77 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT962.42 .G35
  • Shona praise poetry ; compiled by A. C. Hodza ; ed. with introd., translations and notes by G. Fortune. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1979. (401 p.)
    Butler Stacks & African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: PL8681.7 .S5
  • Vambe, Maurice Taonezvi (ed.). Orality and cultural identities in Zimbabwe. Gweru, Zimbabwe : Mambo Press, 2001. (127 p.)
    African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: DT2891 .O73 2001g
    Butler Stacks: DT2891 .O73 2001g

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Africa (General)

  • Belcher, Stephen Paterson. African myths of origin. London ; New York : Penguin, 2005. (511 p.)
    Butler Stacks & African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: BL2400 .B35 2005g
  • Belcher, Stephen Paterson. Epic traditions of Africa. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1999. (276 p.)
    Barnard & Butler Stacks: PL8010 .B44 1999
  • Les épopées d'Afrique noire ; [recueillies et commentées par] Lilyan Kesteloot et Bassirou Dieng ; [préface de François Suard]. Paris : Karthala ; Paris : UNESCO, 1997. (626 p.)
    [En Afrique de l'Ouest: extraits des épopées de Soundiata, Gabou, Ségou, Samory, et plusieurs autres textes des peuples soninké, wolof, sérère, peule, zarma, songhaï, haoussa...en Afrique centrale et de l'est: celles de Mwindo, Mvet, Ozidi, Bassa, Lianja, Liyongo Fumo, Ruganzu, et de l'Afrique du Sud: l'épopée de Chaka.]
    Barnard & Butler Stacks: PL8010 .E66 1997
    African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: PL8010 .E66 1997
  • Johnson, John William, Thomas A. Hale, and Stephen Belcher (eds.) Oral epics from Africa : vibrant voices from a vast continent.Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1997. (331 p.)
    [Selections from Soninké, Mande, Songhay & Zarma, Fulbe, Wolof, Egyptian, Central African, and baNyanga epics.]
    Barnard and Butler Stacks: PL8010 .O72 1997
  • Mapanje, Jack and Landeg White (comps.) Oral poetry from Africa : an anthology ; [adviser, Isidore Okpewho]. New York : Longman, 1983. (216 p.)
    Butler Stacks: PL8013.E5 O7 1983
  • Textes sacrés d'Afrique noire ; choisis et présentés par Germaine Dieterlen; avec la collaboration de Béatrice Appia...[et al.] ; [préface de Amadou Hampâté Bâ]. Paris : Gallimard, 2005. (305 p.)
    Butler Stacks: PL8013.F7 D5 2005
    African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler (1965 ed.): PL8013.F7 D5

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East Africa

  • Knappert, Jan. A survey of Swahili songs with English translations. Studies in Swahili language and literature; v. 4. Lewiston, NY : Edwin Mellen Press, 2004. (546 p.)
    Butler Stacks: PL8704 .K63 2004
  • Liyong, Taban lo, (comp.) Popular culture of East Africa: oral literature. [Nairobi, Kenya] Longman [1972].
    (157 p.)
    African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: GR360.K43 L59
    Butler Stacks: GR360.K43 L59

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Southern Africa

  • Bhebe, Ngwabi (ed.) Oral tradition in southern Africa. Windhoek, Namibia : Gamsberg Macmillan, c2002.
    (306 p.)
    [Oral Traditions Association of Southern Africa projects in Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, & Zimbabwe.]
    African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: GR358 .O73 2002g
  • Vail, Leroy and Landeg White. Power and the praise poem : southern African voices in history. Carter G. Woodson Institute series in Black studies. Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia ; London : James Currey, 1991. (345 p.)
    African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: GR358 .V35 1991
    Offsite, Milstein, Barnard and Butler Stacks: GR358 .V35 1991

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Oral History—Sources

Angola

  • Brinkman, Inge and Axel Fleisch (eds.) Grandmother's footsteps : oral tradition and south-east Angolan narratives on the colonial encounter. History, cultural traditions, and innovations in Southern Africa ; vol. 7. Köln : Köppe, c1999. (255 p.)
    African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: GR358.3 .G73 1999
    Butler Stacks: GR358.3 .G73 1999

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Ghana

  • Asiama, Elias Kwaku. Oral history and cultural practices of the Buem people. [Ghana : s.n.], c2003. (50 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT510.43.L44 A75 2003
  • Clark, Gracia. African market women : seven life stories from Ghana. Bloomington ; Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, c2010. (265 p.)
    Barnard & Butler Stacks: DT507 .C53 2010
  • Hill, Polly. Indigenous trade and market places in Ghana, 1962-64 ; material collected and edited by Polly Hill. Jos oral history and literature texts ; v. 5. [Jos, Nigeria] : Dept. of History, University of Jos, 1984. (288 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT515 .J67, v.5

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Guinea

  • Camara, Laye. The guardian of the word = Kouma Lafôlô Kouma ; [translated from the French by James Kirkup]. The Vintage library of contemporary world literature, Aventura. New York : Aventura, 1984, c1980.
    (223 p.)
    Barnard, Milstein & Butler Stacks: GR350.32.M33 C3413 1984.

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Kenya

  • Ayot, H. Okello. Historical texts of the Lake region of East Africa. Nairobi : Kenya Literature Bureau, 1977.
    (320 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT431 .A93
  • Davison, Jean, with the women of Mutira. Voices from Mutira : change in the lives of rural Gikuyu women, 1910-1995. 2nd ed. Boulder, Colo. ; London : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1996. (271 p.)
    Barnard, Milstein, & Lehman Stacks: DT433.545.K55 D38 1996
  • Masinjila, Masheti and Okoth Okombo (eds.) Voices from the mountain : personal life histories from Mt. Elgon. KOLA community perspectives series ; 1. Nairobi : Kenya Oral Literature Association, 1998. (170 p.)
    Butler Stacks: CT2227.M8 V65 1998
  • Ndambuki, Berida and Claire C. Robertson. We only come here to struggle : stories from Berida's life. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2000. (138 p.)
    Barnard & Butler Stacks: DT434.N3 N35 2000
  • Three Swahili women : life histories from Mombasa, Kenya ; ed. and trans. by Sarah Mirza and Margaret Strobel. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1989. (157 p.)
    Barnard & Milstein Stacks: HQ1796.5 .W3613 1989
    Butler Stacks & African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: On Order
    E-book

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Mali

  • Bâ, Amadou Hampaté. Amkoullel, l'enfant Peul : mémoires. Arles : Actes sud ; Paris : Agence de coopération culturelle et technique, c1991. (409 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT551.45.F85 B28 1991
  • Bâ, Amadou Hampaté. Oui, mon commandant! : mémoires II. Arles : Actes Sud, c1994. (396 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT551.45.F85 B29 1994
  • Jabaté de Kéla, Jeli Kanku Madi. L'Histoire du Mandé ; [texte recuelli, traduit et annoté par Madina Ly-Tall, Seydou Camara et Bouna Diouara]. Paris : Association Scoa, 1987. (296 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT474.6.M36 J32 1987g
  • Jansen, Jan et Mountaga Diarra. Entretiens avec Bala Kanté : une chronique du Manding du XXème siècle. African sources for African history ; v. 8. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006. (154 p.)
    Butler Stacks & African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: DT551.45.M36 J36 2006

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Namibia

  • Longden, Christina (ed.). An-ûihe tama ge hâ i, tamas kara- i o nere!kharuhe ge? : Haioman Namibiab din tsî îs!haosis = Undiscovered or overlooked? : the Haiom of Namibia and their identity. Windhoek, Namibia : Working Group of Indigenous Minorities in Southern Africa, 2004. (74 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT1558.S38 A6 2004g

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Nigeria

  • Ancestral voices : oral historical texts from Nembe, Niger delta ; ed. by E.J. Alagoa and Kay Williamson. Jos oral history and literature texts ; v. 4. [Jos, Nigeria] : Dept. of History, University of Jos, 1981. (239 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT515 .J67, v.4
  • Baba of Karo, a woman of the Muslim Hausa ; introduction and notes by M.G. Smith ; [foreword by Hilda Kuper]. New Haven : Yale University Press, c1981. (299 p.)
    Barnard & Milstein Stacks: DT515.45.H38 B323 1981
    Lehman Stacks (1954 edition): DT515 .B115 1954
    Milstein Stacks (1964 edition): DT515 .B115 1964
  • Western Igbo ; ed. by Don Ohadike and R.N. Shain ; [introduction by Don Ohadike]. Jos oral history and literature texts ; v. 6. [Jos, Nigeria] : Dept. of History, University of Jos, [199-?] (255 p.)
    [Includes material collected by Elizabeth Isichei & others].
    Butler Stacks: DT515 .J67, v.6

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Rwanda

  • Codere, Helen. The biography of an African society, Rwanda 1900-1960 : based on forty-eight Rwandan autobiographies. Publication (Institut national de recherche scientifique (Rwanda)) ; no 12. Annalen. Reeks in-80. Menselijke Wetenschappen/Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika, Tervuren ; no. 79. Tervuren : Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale, 1973. (399 p.)
    Butler Stacks & African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: GN659.R85 C6 1973b
    Butler Stacks: 302.9675 T275 no.79

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Senegal

  • Ly, Abdoulaye. Dialogue avec Abdoulaye Ly : historien et homme politique sénégalais ; conduit par Babacar Fall...[et al.] Dakar : IFAN Ch. A. Diop : ENS : Sud FM, 2001. (182 p.)
    Butler Stacks & African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: DT549.83.L9 A3 2001
  • Visages publics du Sénégal : 10 personnalités politiques parlent ; entrevues réalisées par F. Ndiaye,
    M. Prinz, A. Tine ; [preéface, postface et notes de Manfred Prinz]. Paris : L'Harmattan, c1990. (258 p.)
    Lehman Stacks: DT549.8 .V57 1990

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South Africa

  • Badsha, Omar (Interviewee). Reminiscences of Omar Badsha : oral history, 1999. Carnegie Corporation project. Pt. 2. New York : Copyright held by The Trustees of Columbia University in New York City, 1999. (28 leaves; 3 videocassettes of 66 min.)
    Oral History, 801 Butler: Carnegie Corporation project. Pt. 2. Badsha, O.
    Videos
  • Denis, Philippe (ed.) Orality, memory and the past : listening to the voices of black clergy under colonialism and apartheid ; [papers read at the International Conference held at the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg on 30 June-3 July 1999.] Pietermaritzburg : Cluster, 2000. (286 p.)
    Butler Stacks: BR1450 .O73 1999g
  • Denis, Philippe & Radikobo Ntsimane. Oral history in a wounded country : interactive interviewing in South Africa. Scottsville, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2008. (196 p.)
    Butler Stacks: D16.14 .O73 2008g
  • Field, Sean, Renate Meyer & Felicity Swanson (eds.) Imagining the city : memories and cultures in Cape Town. Cape Town : HSRC Press, 2007. (240 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT1182 .I63 2007g
  • Field, Sean (ed.) Lost communities, living memories : remembering forced removals in Cape Town. Cape Town : D. Philip, 2001. (142 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT2405.C366 L677 2001g
  • Hlongwane, Khangela Ali, Sifiso Ndlovu, Mothobi Mutloatse (eds.) Soweto '76. Houghton [South Africa] : Mutloatse Arts Heritage Trust ; Illovo [South Africa] : Distribution and marketing, Pan Macmillan, 2006.
    (237 p.)
    African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: DT1959 .S695 2006
  • Hofmeyr, Isabel. "We spend our years as a tale that is told" : oral historical narrative in a South African chiefdom. Social history of Africa. Portsmouth, N.H. : Heinemann ; Johannesburg : Witwatersrand University Press ; London : J. Currey, 1994. (328 p.)
    African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: DT1768.N42 H64 1994
    Barnard & Butler Stacks: DT1768.N42 H64 1994
  • Oppenheimer, Gerald M. and Ronald Bayer. Shattered dreams? : an oral history of the South African AIDS epidemic. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007. (266 p.)
    Health Sciences & Butler Stacks: RA643.86.S6 O66 2007
  • Scheub, Harold. The tongue is fire : South Africa storytellers and apartheid. Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c1996. (448 p.)
    Barnard & Butler Stacks: GR359 .S34 1996
    African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: GR359 .S34 1996
    E-book
  • Suzman, Helen. Reminiscences of Helen Suzman : oral history, 1984. New York : The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1990. (219 leaves; 4 reels)
    Oral History, 801 Butler: NXCP90-A168
  • Tutu, Desmond (Interviewee). Reminiscences of Desmond Tutu : oral history, 1999. Carnegie Corporation project. Pt. 2. New York : The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1999. (13 leaves; 2 videocassettes of 35 min.)
    Oral History, 801 Butler: Carnegie Corporation project. Pt. 2. Tutu, D.
    Video
  • Webb, C. de B. and J.B. Wright (eds.) The James Stuart archive of recorded oral evidence relating to the history of the Zulu and neighbouring peoples. 5 vols. Pietermaritzburg : University of Natal Press, 1976-
    Butler Stacks: DT878.Z9 J3, v.1-5
  • Wieder, Alan. Voices from Cape Town classrooms : oral histories of teachers who fought apartheid ; [preface by Kadar Asmal]. New York : Peter Lang, c2003. (181 p.)
    Butler Stacks: LB2844.1.P6 W49 2003
  • Wilson, Francis (Interviewee). Reminiscences of Francis Wilson : oral history, 1999. Carnegie Corporation project. Pt. 2. New York: The Carnegie Corporation of New York & The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1999. (294 leaves; 1 sound cassette of 92 min; 16 videocassettes of 457 min.)
    Oral History, 801 Butler: Carnegie Corporation project. Pt. 2. Wilson, F.
    Videos

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Sudan

  • Deng, Francis Mading and M.W. Daly. Bonds of silk : the human factor in the British administration of the Sudan. African series ; no. 1. East Lansing, Mich.: Michigan State University Press, c1989. (245 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT156.7 .D33 1989

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Swaziland

  • Hall, James. Speak Manzini : an autobiography of an African city. Manzini, Swaziland : Landmark Publishers, c2000. (135 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT2825.M35 H355 2000g

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Tanzania

  • Geiger, Susan. TANU women : gender and culture in the making of Tanganyikan nationalism, 1955-1965. Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann ; Oxford : James Currey ; Nairobi : E.A.E.P. ; Dar es Salaam : Mkuki Na Nyota, c1997. (217 p.)
    Barnard, Milstein, & Butler Stacks: HQ1236.5.T34 G45 1997
    African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: HQ1236.5.T34 G45 1997

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Zimbabwe

  • Werbner, Richard P. Tears of the dead : the social biography of an African family. Harare : Baobab Books, 1992. (211 p.)
    Butler Stacks: HN802 .W47 1992g
    Offsite (1991 edition): HN802 .W47 1991g

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Central Africa

  • Kubik, Gerhard and Moses Yotamu (comp.) The Luchazi people : their history & chieftaincy: Angola, Congo, Namibia, Zambia ; [assisted by Kayombo ka Chinyeka and Vwime Ngunga ; edited and additions by Chikota Cha Luchazi Association ; trans. from Luchazi by J. Mukombo wa Muwema]. Lusaka : Central African Oral History Research Project, 1998. (255 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT3058.L83 L83 1998g
  • Perrot, Claude Hélène...[et al.] (eds.) Passé de l'Afrique par l'oralité. Collection Analyses. Série Analyses bibliographiques. Paris : Ministère de la coopération et du développement : La Documentation française, c1993. (304 p.)
    African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: Z3508.H5 P37 1993g

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Diaspora

  • Baldwin, James. Reminiscences of James Baldwin : oral history, 1964. (Transcript of 432 leaves) [Interviewed by Fern Marja Eckman.]
    Oral History (801 Butler): NXCP87-A203
  • Black women oral history project : oral history, 1976-1980. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Schlesinger Library of Radcliffe College, [1976] (Transcript of 3,056 leaves) [Undertaken in 1976, this project records the memoirs of selected black American women aged seventy and over who had strong impacts on their communities through either their professional contributions or voluntary service, including members of the National Council of Negro Women, the National Urban League, & the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.]
    Oral History (801 Butler): NXCP86-A384
  • Coming through : voices of a South Carolina Gullah community from WPA oral histories ; collected by Genevieve W. Chandler ; edited by Kincaid Mills, Genevieve C. Peterkin, and Aaron McCollough ; [foreword by Charles W. Joyner]. Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, c2008. (391 p.)
    Butler Stacks: F277.W33 C66 2008
  • Documenting the American South : Oral Histories of the American South--The Civil Rights Movement Interviews conducted between 1974 and 2006. (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC)
  • Govenar, Alan B. African American frontiers : slave narratives and oral histories. Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2000. (551 p.)
    Barnard REF & Butler Stacks: E444 .G68 2000
  • Honey, Michael K. Black workers remember : an oral history of segregation, unionism, and the freedom struggle. Berkeley : University of California Press, c1999. (402 p.)
    Lehman Stacks: HD8081.A65 H66 1999
    E-book
  • Hutson, Jean Blackwell. Reminiscences of Jean Blackwell Hutson : oral history, 1978. (Transcript of
    65 leaves ; 2 tapes ; miscellaneous papers relating to oral history) New York : The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1984. [Childhood in Maryland; radical and black student politics, 1930s; positions with The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York: Curator (1948-72), Chief Librarian from 1972; interviewed by Barbara Jones.]
    Oral History Office (801 Butler): NXCP88-A1151
  • Schuyler, George S. Reminiscences of George Samuel Schuyler : oral history, 1960. (Transcript of 723 leaves ; 1 tape reel) New York : The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1972. [Interviewed by William T. Ingersoll.]
    Oral History Office (801 Butler): NXCP87-A1304

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Bibliographies & Other Reference Works

Cameroon

  • Tala, Kashim Ibrahim. The oral tale in Africa. Yaoundé : BET, 1989. (286 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR350 .T34 1989g

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Malawi

  • Chimombo, Steve Bernard Miles. A bibliography of oral literature in Malawi, 1860-1968. Zomba, Malawi : Chancellor College, [1987]. (32 p.)
    Butler Stacks: Z5984.M35 C47 1987

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Nigeria

  • Spahr, Thorsten. Benin-Bibliographie : mehrfach systematisierte, bilingual kommentierte Bibliographie zur Geschichte der Edo-Kultur im Königreich von Benin (Süd-Nigeria) = Benin-bibliography : multiply systematised and bilingually annotated bibliography on the history of the Edo-culture in the kingdom of Benin (Southern Nigeria). Mammendorf : PlV, Pro Literatur Verlag, 2006. (418 p.)
    Butler REF: R016.9669 S73
    African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: DT515.45.B56 S6 2006g

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Rwanda

  • Hategekimana, Grégoire. Guide pratique pour la collecte globale et systématique des traditions orales du
    Rwanda : synthèse documentaire.     Kigali [Rwanda] : Le Ministère, [1981]. (127 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR356.6 .H37

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South Africa

  • Alan Paton Centre (University of Natal). Guide to the oral sources in the Alan Paton Centre, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg ; National Archives of South Africa. 2nd ed. [Pretoria?] : The Archives, 2004. (72 p.)
    African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: CD2459.P5434 A43 2004
  • Cheek, Martie (comp.) Oral studies : a select list of the holdings on oral tradition, folklore and folk literature in the Killie Campbell Africana Library ; [with an introd. by E.R. Sienaert]. Durban : The Library, 1994. (66 p.)
    Butler Stacks: Z3501 .K56 1994g
  • Killie Campbell Africana Library. Oral history project relating to the Zulu people : catalogue of interviews.
    Durban : Killie Campbell Africana Library, University of Natal, 1983. (43 leaves)
    Butler Stacks: DT878.Z9 K54 1983

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Zambia

  • Rooke, Andrew P. and Augustine W.C. Msiska. Bibliography of oral literature projects in Zambia ; [with a foreword by J. Keith Rennie]. Lusaka : University of Zambia Library, [1981-]
    Butler Stacks: Z5984.Z33 R66 1981, v. 1

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Central Africa

  • Kwenzi-Mikala, Jérome Tangu (ed.) Tradition orale liée à la traite négrière et à l'esclavage en Afrique centrale [electronic resource]. Paris : UNESCO, c2003. (113 p.)
    E-book

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Southern Africa

  • Westley, David. The Mfecane : an annotated bibliography. [Madison] : African Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999. (60 p.)
    Butler REF: R016.968 W527

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West Africa

  • Guèye, El Hadji Mbaye. Les sources orales de la traite négrière en Guinée et en Sénégambie [electronic resource]. Paris : UNESCO, [n.d.]
    E-book
  • Niane, Djibril Tasmsir. Tradition orale et archives de la traite négrière [electronic resource]. Paris : Unesco, 2001.
    E-book
  • Westley, David. Hausa oral traditions : an annotated bibliography. Working papers in African studies ; no. 154. Boston, MA : African Studies Center, Boston University, c1991. (22 leaves)
    Lehman Stacks: DT1 .W67 no.154

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Africa (General)

  • African folklore : an encyclopedia. Ed. by Philip M. Peek and Kwesi Yankah. New York : Routledge, 2004.
    (593 p.)
    Butler REF: R398 Af81
    Barnard REF & African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: GR350 .A33 2004
  • Görög, Veronika. Bibliographie annotée littérature orale d'Afrique noire ; [avec la participation de Catherine Bouillet et Tal Tamar]. Paris : Conseil international de la langue française, c1992. (367 p.)
    Butler Reference, 301 Butler: R016.398 G683
  • Görög, Veronika [avec la participation de Michèle Chiche]. Littérature orale d'Afrique noire : bibliographie analytique. Paris : G.-P. Maisonneuve et Larose, 1981. (394 p.)
    Butler Reference, 301 Butler: R016.398 G68
  • The Oxford encyclopedia of African thought ; editors in chief, F. Abiola Irele and Biodun Jeyifo. 2 vols.
    New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
    African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: DT14 .I74 2010
  • Scheub, Harold. Bibliography of African oral narratives. University of Wisconsin. African Studies Program. Occasional paper no. 3. Madison : [African Studies Program, University of Wisconsin], 1971. (160 p.)
    Offsite: DT1 .W5 no.3
  • Stone, Ruth M. and Frank J. Gillis. African music and oral data : a catalog of field recordings, 1902-1975. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1976. (412 p.)
    Music Reference: ML156.4.P7 S8
  • Sunkuli, Leteipa Ole and Simon Okumba Miruka. A dictionary of oral literature. Nairobi : Heinemann Kenya, 1990. (132 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR350 .S86 1990g

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Diaspora

  • Prahlad, Anand (ed.) The Greenwood encyclopedia of African American folklore. 3 vols. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2006.
    Butler REF: R398 G856, v.1-3
    Barnard REF: GR111.A47 G74 2006
  • Pyatt, Sherman E. and Alan Johns. A dictionary and catalog of African American folklife of the South. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1999. (188 p., [18] p. of plates)
    Butler REF: R398 P99

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Algeria

  • Bellil, Rachid. Les oasis du Gourara, Sahara algérien. Etudes berbères ; 13, 17, 18 = Ussun amazigh; SELAF ; 373, 388, 389. Paris : Peeters, [1999-].
    Butler Stacks: DT298.G68 B45 1999g

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Angola

  • Brinkman, Inge (ed.) Singing in the bush : MPLA songs during the war for independence in south-east Angola (1966-1975). History, cultural traditions, and innovations in Southern Africa ; v. 16. Köln : Rüdiger Köppe, c2001. (110 p.)
    Butler Stacks & African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: ML3760 .S58 2001
  • Fisch, Maria. The Mbukushu in Angola (1730-2002) : a history of migration, flight and royal rainmaking. History, cultural traditions, and innovations in Southern Africa ; v. 11. Köln : Köppe, 2005.(96 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT1308.M37 F57 2005g

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Cameroon

  • Akamba, Robert. Oba'a Mbeti : Chef Bulu contre les Allemands, 1899-1900 : essai de critique de documents de la tradition orale. [S.l. : s.n.] 1979. (277 leaves)
    Offsite: DT574 .A4
  • Assoumou Ndoutoume, Daniel. Du Mvett : essai sur la dynastie Ekang (ou Etsang) Nna. Paris : L'Harmattan, c1986. (183 p., [12] p. of plates)
    Butler Stacks: DT546.145.F35 A85 1986
  • Kingue Ntone Kouo, Hélène. La figure du héros dans les textes camerounais et français : Les Merveilleux exploits de Djèki la Njambè et La Chanson de Roland. Paris : Harmattan, c2010. (343 p.)
    Offsite: GR351.2.D82 K56 2010g
  • Mbondé Mouangué, Auguste Léopold. Pouvoirs et conflit dans Jêki la Njambé : une épopée camerounaise ; [préface de Eric de Rosny ; présentation de Lilyan Kesteloot]. Paris : L'Harmattan, c2005. (371 p.)
    Butler Stacks: PL8141.7 M36 2005g
  • Les nouveaux défis de la littérature orale africaine : Ndzana Nga Zogo : problématique d'une conciliation du réel et de l'irréel ; sous la direction de Emmanuel Matateyou. Yaoundé : Presses universitaires de Yaoundé, 1999. (287 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR351 .N68 1999g
  • Tang, Alice Delphine. Ecriture féminine et tradition africaine: l'introduction du "Mbock Bassa" dans l'esthétique romanesque de Were Were Liking ; [préface de Jacques Fame Ndongo]. Paris : Harmattan, c2009. (204 p.)
    Offsite: PQ3989.2.L54 Z83 2009g
  • Wognou, Jean Marcel Eugène. Les Basaa du Cameroun : monographie historique d'après la tradition orale. Niamey, Rep. du Niger : Organisation de l'unité africaine, Centre d'études linguistiques et historiques par tradition orale (CELHTO), [1985]. (201 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT571.B37 W63 1985

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Cape Verde

  • Les îles du Cap-Vert : langues, mémoires, histoire ; Idelette Muzart-Fonseca dos Santos, José Manuel Da Costa Esteves, Denis Rolland, organisateurs ; avec Maria Helena Ança ...[et al.]. Paris : L'Harmattan, c2007. (262 p., [8] p. of plates)
    Offsite: DT671.C25 I44 2007

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Cote d'Ivoire

  • Deluz, Ariane. Organisation sociale et tradition orale, les Guro de Côte-d'Ivoire. Paris ; La Haye : Mouton et Cie, 1970. (197 p.)
    Butler Stacks: 302.08 P2184 (new series : no.9)
  • Diabaté, Henriette. Le Sannvin : sources orales et histoire : essai de méthodologie. Abidjan [Ivory Coast] : Nouvelles Editions africaines, [1986]. (189 p.) [Akan oral traditions.]
    Butler Stacks: DT545.9.A26 D53 1986
  • Loucou, Jean-Noël and Françoise Ligier. La reine Pokou, fondatrice du royaume baoulé. Paris : ABC ; Dakar : NEA, c1977. (134 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT545.42 .L69
  • Tadjo, Véronique. Queen Pokou : concerto for a sacrifice ; translated from the French by Amy Baram Reid. Banbury, UK : Ayebia ; [London] : Arts Council England ; Boulder, CO : Distributed in the USA by Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2009. (70 p.)
    [A collection of prose and poetic reflections on the founding legend of the Baoulé kingdom.]
    Butler Stacks: PQ3989.2.T25 R4513 2009g
  • Tadjo, Véronique. Reine Pokou : concerto pour un sacrifice. Arles : Actes sud, c2004. (90 p.)
    Butler Stacks: PQ3989.2.T25 R45 2004
  • Université nationale de Côte d'Ivoire, Faculté des lettres et sciences humaines. "Séminaire de méthodologie de recherche et d'enseignement du conte africain" : 3-6 avril 1989. [Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire] : L'Université, [1990]. (189 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR350 .S46 1989

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DR Congo

  • Cancel, Robert. Allegorical speculation in an oral society : the Tabwa narrative tradition. University of California publications in modern philology ; v. 122. Berkeley : University of California Press, c1989. (230 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT963.42 .C35 1989
  • Ngal, M. a M. Littératures congolaises de la RDC : 1482-2007 : histoire et anthologie ; [préface de Pierre Vérin]. Paris : L'Harmattan, c2007. (331 p.)
    Offsite: PQ3988.5.C64 N43 2007g
  • Verbeek, Léon. Mort et douleur dans une société africaine : chansons de deuil, de tristesse et de levée de deuil du sud-est du Katanga. 2 v. Tervuren, Belgique : Musée royal de l'Afrique central, 2001.
    Offsite: M1831.L85 V47 2001g, t.1-2

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Egypt

  • Reynolds, Dwight Fletcher. Heroic poets, poetic heroes : the ethnography of performance in an Arabic oral epic tradition. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1995. (243 p.)
    Butler Stacks & Offsite: GN648 .R49 1995

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Ethiopia

  • Faqāda 'Azaza. Unheard voices : drought, famine, and God in Ethiopian oral poetry. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia : Addis Ababa University Press ; Trondheim, Norway : Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 1998. (224 p.)
    Butler Stacks & African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: PJ9268.5.S472 F3 1998g
  • Gelaye, Getie. Amharic oral poems of the peasantry in East Gojjam : text, classification, translation and commentary.Münster : Lit ; New Brunswick, U.S.A. : Distributed in North America by Transaction Pubs., [2001]. (135 p.)
    Butler Stacks: PJ9268.5.G652 G4 2001g
  • Sumner, Claude. Ethiopian philosophy. Addis Ababa : Central Print. Press, 1974- 5 v.
    Butler Stacks: B4693.E83 S9 (v. 1-2, 4-5 only)

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Gabon

  • Chavihot, Albert Aléwina. Les Adyumba du Gabon : de la petite valise de Nènè ; [préface, Jean-Avéno Davin]. Libreville, Gabon : Editions Raponda Walker, [1999 or 2000]. (196 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT546.145.A38 C33 1999
  • Minko Bengone, Laurent. Comprendre autrement le Mvett ; [préface de Grégoire Biyogo]. Collection Recherche et pédagogie. Paris : L'Harmattan Gabon, 2008. (102 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT546.145.F35 M55 2008g

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Gambia

  • Janson, Marloes. The best hand is the hand that always gives: griottes and their profession in eastern Gambia. CNWS publications, v. 118. Leiden, Netherlands : Research School CNWS, School of Asian, African, and Amerindian Studies, 2002. (322 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT509.45.M34 J36 2002g
  • Kuyate, Momodou. Alhaji Mohammed Farang Njie ; [translated into English by B.K. Sidibe & Isatou Konte ; edited by B.K. Sidibe & Jill Kenrick ; illustrations by David McCurry]. Banjul, Gambia : Oral History and Antiquities Division, Vice President's Office, Old National Library, [1980]. (71 p., [8] p. of plates)
    Butler Stacks: GR352.9 .K89 1980

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Ghana

  • Crowley, Daniel J. Folktale research in Africa : open lecture delivered at the University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana, on April 29, 1971. Accra : Published for the University of Ghana by Ghana Universities Press ;
    New York : Panther House, c1971. (19 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR350 .C73
  • Priebe, Richard K. (ed.) Ghanaian literatures. Contributions in Afro-American and African studies ; no. 120.
    New York : Greenwood Press, 1988. (300 p.)
    Butler Stacks: PL8021.G5 G43 1988
  • Yankah, Kwesi. Speaking for the chief : Okyeame and the politics of Akan royal oratory. African systems of thought. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1995. (194 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT510.43.A53 Y35 1995

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Guinea

  • Barry, Alpha Ousmane. L'épopée peule du Fuuta Jaloo : de l'éloge à l'amplification rhétorique. Paris : Karthala, c2011. (359 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR350.32.F82 B37 2011g
  • La Charte de Kurukan Fuga : aux sources d'une pensée politique en Afrique. Paris : Harmattan ; Conakry : SAEC Société africaine d'édition et de communication, c2008. (162 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT532.2 .C43 2008g
  • Cherif, Alhassane. L'importance de la parole chez les Manding de Guinée : paroles de vie, paroles de mort et rituels funéraires. Etudes africaines. Paris : L'Harmattan, c2005. (309 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR44.O72 I58 2005g
  • N'Daou, Mohamed Saidou. Sangalan oral traditions: history, memories, and social differentiation. Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2005. (271 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT543.45.Y35 N33 2005

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Kenya

  • Fadiman, Jeffrey. When we began there were witchmen : an oral history from Mount Kenya. Berkeley : University of California Press, c1993. (395 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT433.545.M47 F34 1993
  • Indangasi, Henry, Eunice Nyamasyo, Peter Wasamba (eds.) Our landscapes, our narratives : proceedings of the Conference on East African Oral Literature. Conference on East African Oral Literature (2005 : Kisumu, Kenya). Nairobi : Kenya Oral Literature Association, 2006. (133 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR350 .C664 2005
  • Levine, Sarah. Mothers and wives : Gusii women of East Africa ; [in collaboration with Robert A. LeVine.] Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1979. (391 p.)
    Barnard, Offsite, & Lehman Stacks: DT433.542 .L49
  • Masinjila, Masheti and Okoth Okombo (eds.) Teaching oral literature. Nairobi, Kenya : Kenya Oral Literature Association, 1994.(98 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR356.4 .T43 1994
  • Okombo, Okoth and Jane Nandwa (eds.) Reflections on theories and methods in oral literature : papers presented at a forum Feb. 5-7, 1992 sponsored by the Kenya Oral Literature Association. Nairobi : Kenya Oral Literature Association, 1992. (167 p.)
    Offsite: PN909 .R43 1992g

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Liberia

  • Tonkin, Elizabeth. Narrating our pasts : the social construction of oral history. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992. (171 p.) [Includes a case study of a Kru community in Liberia.]
    Butler Stacks: D16.14 .T66 1992

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Madagascar

  • Haring, Lee. Verbal arts in Madagascar : performance in historical perspective. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1992. (242 p.)
    Barnard & Butler Stacks: GR357 .H38 1992

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Malawi

  • Chimombo, Steve Bernard Miles. Malawian oral literature : the aesthetics of indigenous arts. Zomba : Centre for Social Research, University of Malawi, 1988. (304 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR358.5 .C47 1988g

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Mali

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Namibia

  • Kavari, J.U. The form and meaning of Otjiherero praises. Wortkunst und Dokumentartexte in afrikanischen Sprachen ; Bd. 14. Köln : Köppe, c2002. (328 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT1558.H48 K275 2002g

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Niger

  • Alpha Gado, Boureima. Niamey : au coeur du Sahel. Miroir du passé ; v. 2. [Niamey, Niger : s.n.], 1997. (78 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT547.9.N5 A47 1997g
  • Hale, Thomas A. Scribe, griot, and novelist : narrative interpreters of the Songhay Empire ; followed by
    The epic of Askia Mohammed, recounted by Nouhou Malio.     Gainesville : University of Florida Press : Center for African Studies, c1990. (313 p.)
    Milstein & Butler Stacks: DT532.27.M63 H35 1990
  • Maïga, Hassimi Oumarou. Balancing written history with oral tradition : the legacy of the Songhoy people.
    New York : Routledge, 2010. (206 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT530.5.S65 M35 2010g

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Nigeria

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São Tomé & Príncipe

  • Reis, Fernando. Soiá; literatura oral de São Tomé. Braga, Portugal : Editora Pax, 1965. (129 p.) [Includes poetry.]
    Offsite: PQ9908.S2 R4

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Senegal

  • Baum, Robert Martin. Shrines of the slave trade : Diola religion and society in precolonial Senegambia. New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1999. (287 p.)
    African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: BL2480.D54 B38 1999
    Butler Stacks (2 copies): BL2480 .D54 1999
  • Dieng, Bassirou. Société wolof et discours du pouvoir : analyse des récits épiques du Kajoor. [Dakar] : Presses universitaires de Dakar, 2008. (378 p.)
    Butler Precataloging: 9APR 45718
  • Diop, Samba. Oralité africaine : entre esthétique et poétique. Paris : L'Harmattan, 2011. (186 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR350 .D56 2011g
  • Emitaï. Videorecording. Films Domirev présentent ; un film de Sembene Ousmane ; director of production, Paulin Soumanou Vieya ; photography, Michel Renaudeau ; editing, Gilbert Kikoïne. [New York] : New Yorker Films, [2001?]
    [Originally produced as a motion picture in 1971. About 96 minutes in length. Depicts the clash between French colonialists and the Diolas, in the closing days of World War II.]
    Butler Media Reserves (2002 PAL ed.): DVD11435
    Offsite (Butler Media Reserves): VIDEORES01596
  • Equilbecq, François-Victor. La légende de Samba Guélâdio Diêgui prince du Foûta ; [introd. de Robert Cornevin]. Dakar : Nouvelles éditions africianes, c1974. (348 p.) [A drama based on the epic of the historic figure of Samba Guélâdio Diêgui.]
    Offsite: PQ2237.E6 L4
  • Kamara, Muusa, Shaykh. Florilège au jardin de l'histoire des Noirs : Zuh¯ur al-bas¯at¯in ; sous la direction et avec une introduction de Jean Schmitz ; [avec la collaboration de Charles Becker...[et al.] ; traduction de Saïd Bousbina]. Vol. 1. L'aristocratie peule et la révolution des clercs musulmans (Vallée du Sénégal). Paris : CNRS Editions, c1998. (460 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT549.7 .K36 1998
  • Kane, Mohamadou K. Les contes d'Amadou Coumba ; du conte traditionnel au conte moderne d'expression française. Publications de la Section de langues et litteratures ; no. 16. Dakar : 1968. (243 p.)
    Offsite: 809 D147 no.16
  • Leymarie, Isabelle. Les griots wolof du Sénégal. Paris : Servedit-Maisonneuve et Larose, 1999. (183 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR352.72.W64 L49 1999g
  • Lunn, Joe. Memoirs of the maelstrom: a Senegalese oral history of the First World War. Social history of Africa. Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, 1999. (264 p.)
    Milstein & Butler Stacks: D811.A2 L85 1999
  • Mareme Ba, Melle & Bassirou Dieng. Oralité et écriture dans l'œuvre romanesque de Aminata Sow Fall. [s.l.: s.n. 1995]. (70 leaves).
    Butler Stacks: PQ3989.2.F177 Z6 1995a

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Sierra Leone

  • Cosentino, Donald. Defiant maids and stubborn farmers : tradition and invention in Mende story performance. Cambridge studies in oral and literate culture ; no. 4. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1982. (226 p.)
    Butler Stacks: P211.3.A35 D4 2006g

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Somalia

  • Ahmed, Ali Jimale. Daybreak is near ... : literature, clans, and the nation-state in Somalia. Lawrenceville, NJ : Red Sea Press, 1996. (176 p.)
    Barnard & Butler Stacks: PJ2533 .A5 1996
  • Johnson, John William. Heelloy : modern poetry and songs of the Somali. New ed. London : HAAN, 1996.
    (241 p)
    Butler Stacks & African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: PJ2533.5 .J64 1996
  • Samatar, Said S. Oral poetry and Somali nationalism : the case of Sayyid Maḥammad 'Abdille Ḥasan. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1982. (232 p.)
    Lehman Stacks: DT1 .A33 no.32

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South Africa

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Tanzania

  • Seitel, Peter. The powers of genre : interpreting Haya oral literature. Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics ; 22. New York : Oxford University Press, 1999. (248 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR350 .P74 1995g
  • Willis, Roy G. A state in the making : myth, history , and social transformation in pre-colonial Ufipa. African systems of thought. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1981. (322 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT443 .W49

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Togo

  • Ablemagnon, F. N'Sougan. Sociologie des sociétés orales d'Afrique noire : les Eve du Sud-Togo ; [préface de Roger Bastide]. Paris : Silex, 1984. (216 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT500 .A465 1984g
    Offsite: DT500 .A36 1984g
  • Aglo, John. Les fondements philosophiques de la morale dans une société à tradition orale : le système Adanu. Philosophie en commun. Paris : L'Harmattan, 2001. (254 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT510.43.E94 A46 2001g

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Tunisia

  • Webber, Sabra Jean. Romancing the real : folklore and ethnographic representation in North Africa.
    Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991. (293 p.)
    Butler Stacks & African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: GR353.52.Q53 W43 1991

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Uganda

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Zambia

  • Moyo, Stevens P.C.; Tobias W.C. Sumaili & James A. Moody [comp. & eds.] Oral traditions in southern Africa. [Lusaka] : Division for Culture Research, Institute for African Studies, University of Zambia with the assistance of UNESCO, 1986. (540 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR358 .O83 1986g

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Central Africa

  • Centre international des civilisations bantu. Ndaka : liaison bulletin of the Department of Linguistics and Oral Traditions. [Libreville, Gabon] : CICIBA, [1988-]. [no.1 (1988)-no.2 (1989)]
    Butler Stacks: PL8000 .N4

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East Africa

  • Kabira, Wanjiku Mukabi. The oral artist. Nairobi : Heinemann Educational Books, 1983. (105 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR356.42.K53 K33 1983
  • Miruka, Simon Okumba. Encounter with oral literature. Nairobi : East African Educational Publishers, 1994.
    (193 p.)
    Butler Stacks: PL8014.K4 M57 1994
  • Njogu, Kimani and Hervé Maupeu (eds.) Songs and politics in Eastern Africa. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania : Mkuki Na Nyoka Publishers ; Nairobi, Kenya : IFRA, 2007. (401 p.)
    Butler Stacks--Precat (Ask at circulation): 7DEC 07351
    African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: ML3760.1 .S65 2007g
  • The road less traveled : reflections on the literatures of the Horn of Africa ; ed. by Ali Jimale Ahmed and Taddesse Adera. Trenton, NJ : Red Sea Press, c2008. (464 p.)
    Butler Stacks: PL8010 .R63 2008
  • Schmidt, Peter R. Historical archaeology in Africa : representation, social memory, and oral traditions.Lanham, MD : AltaMira Press, c2006. (316 p.)
    Barnard & Butler Stacks: DT13 .S35 2006

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North Africa

  • Kaye, Jacqueline and Abdelhamid Zoubir. The ambiguous compromise : language, literature, and national identity in Algeria and Morocco. London ; New York : Routledge, 1990. (141 p.)
    Butler Stacks: PQ3988.5.A5 K39 1990

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Southern Africa

  • International Conference on Oral Tradition (4th : 1994 : University of Natal). Oral tradition and its transmission : the many forms of message : papers given at the Fourth International Conference on Oral Tradition, University of Natal, Durban, 27-30 June 1994 ; ed. by Edgard Sienaert, Meg Cowper-Lewis and Nigel Bell. Durban : The Campbell Collections and Centre for Oral Studies, University of Natal ;
    Johannesburg : Thorold's Africana Books [distributor], 1994. (356 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR350 .I57 1994
  • Kaschula, Russell H. (ed.) Foundations in southern African oral literature. African studies reprint series ; no. 2. Johannesburg : Witwatersrand University Press, 1993. (382 p.)
    Butler Stacks: PL8014.S632 F68 1993g
  • Slave routes and oral tradition in southeastern Africa ; ed. by Benigna Zimba, Edward Alpers, and Allen Isaacman. Maputo, Mozambique : Filsom Entertainment, c2005. (335 p.)
    Butler Stacks: HT1326 .S53 2005g

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West Africa

  • Austen, Ralph A. (ed.) In search of Sunjata : the Mande oral epic as history, literature and performance. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1999. (349 p.)
    Butler Stacks & African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: PL8491.9.E63 I57 1999g
  • Barber, Karin and P.F. de Moraes Farias (eds.) Discourse and its disguises : the interpretation of African oral texts. Birmingham University African studies series ; 1. [Birmingham, England] : Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham, 1989. (209 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT19 .D57 1989g
  • Baumgardt, Ursula et Jean Derive (eds.) Paroles nomades : ecrits d'ethnolinguistique africaine, en hommage à Christiane Seydou ; [préface de Geneviève Calame-Griaule]. Collection Tradition orale. Paris : Karthala, 2005.
    (538 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR350 .P36 2005
  • Baumgardt, Ursula et Jean Derive. Littératures orales africaines : perpectives théoriques et méthodologiques. Tradition orale. Paris : Karthala, c2008. (439 p.)
    Butler Stacks: PL8010 .L5885 2008g
  • Julien, Eileen. African novels and the question of orality. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1992.
    (180 p.)
    Offsite & Butler Stacks: PQ3984 .J85 1992
    African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: PQ3984 .J85 1992
  • Makouta-Mboukou, Jean Pierre. Spiritualités et cultures dans la prose romanesque et la poésie négro-africaines : de l'oralité à l'écriture ; [préface de Charles Valy Diarrassouba]. Abidjan : Nouvelles Editions africaines, 1983. (247 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR40 .T393 1998
  • Séminaire international "Tradition orale et littérature moderne dans le processus de la promotion culturelle en Afrique occidentale" (1988 : Cotonou, Benin) ; Ministère de la culture, de la jeunesse et des sports, INFOSEC, Fondation Friedrich Naumann. Cotonou : INFOSEC, 1988.
    Butler Stacks: DT474 .S46 1988g
  • Sia, le rêve du python = Sia, the dream of the python. Videorecording. Un film de Dani Kouyaté.
    New York, NY : ArtMattan Productions, 2001.
    [Filmed in Burkina Faso, about 96 minutes in length ; based on the legend of Sia Yatabaré, part of the Soninké epic of Wagadu, the ancient empire of Ghana.]
    Offsite (Butler Media Reserves): VIDEORES00814
  • Sidikou, Aïssata G. Recreating words, reshaping worlds : the verbal art of women from Niger, Mali, and Senegal. Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, 2001. (260 p.)
    Butler Stacks: PL8014.N55 S57 2001
  • Thiers-Thiam, Valérie. À chacun son griot : le mythe du griot-narrateur dans la littérature et le cinéma d'Afrique de l'Ouest. Collection La bibliothêque d'africultures. Paris : L'Harmattan, c2004. (178 p.)
    Butler Stacks: PL8014.W37 T55 2004g

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Africa (General)

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Diaspora

  • Abrahams, Roger D. The man-of-words in the West Indies : performance and the emergence of Creole culture. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1983. (203 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR120 .A27 1983
  • Adéè̳kó̳, Adéléke. The slave's rebellion : literature, history, orature. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2005. (203 p.) [Comparative essays on oral tradition and slave revolts in Nigerian, Afro-Caribbean, and African-American literatures.]
    Barnard & Butler Stacks: PS153.N5 A285 2005
    E-book
  • Akoma, Chiji. Folklore in New World Black fiction : writing and the oral traditional aesthetics. Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2007. (162 p.)
    Butler Stacks: PS374.N4 A36 2007
  • Bailey, Anne C. African voices of the Atlantic slave trade : beyond the silence and the shame. Boston : Beacon Press, c2005.(289 p.) [Analysis of Jamaican and Ghanaian oral histories.]
    Barnard & African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: HT1331 .B34 2005
    Butler Stacks (2007 ed.): HT1331 .B345 2007g
  • Brown, Stewart (ed.) The pressures of the text : orality, texts and the telling of tales. Birmingham : Centre of West African Studies, c1995. (145 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR350 .P74 1995g
  • Cascudo, Luís da Câmara. Literatura oral no Brasil de Luís da Câmara Cascudo. 2. ed. Rio de Janeiro : Livraria J. Olympio Editora, 1978. (452 p.)
    Butler Stacks: 891 C67 v.186
  • Castillo, Lisa Earl. Entre a oralidade e a escrita : a etnografia nos candomblés da Bahia. Salvador, Bahia : EDUFBA, 2008. (231 p.)
    Butler Stacks: BL2592.C35 C37 2008g
  • Frindéthié, Martial K. The black renaissance in francophone African and Caribbean literatures. Jefferson,
    N.C. : McFarland & Company, c2008. (209 p.)
    Butler Stacks: PQ3980.5 .A67 2005g
  • Fulton, DoVeanna S. Speaking power : Black feminist orality in women's narratives of slavery. Albany : State University of New York Press, c2006. (164 p.)
    Barnard & Butler Stacks: PS366.A35 F85 2006
  • Gates, Henry Louis. The signifying monkey : a theory of African-American literary criticism. New York : Oxford University Press, 1989, c1988. (290 p.)
    Barnard & Butler Stacks: PS153.N5 G28 1988
    Milstein Stacks & African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: PS153.N5 G28 1989g
  • Harris, Trudier. The power of the porch : the storyteller's craft in Zora Neale Hurston, Gloria Naylor, and Randall Kenan.Athens : University of Georgia Press, c1996. (152 p.)
    Barnard & Butler Stacks: PS374.N4 H35 1996
  • Jones, Gayl. Liberating voices : oral tradition in African American literature. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1991. (228 p.)
    Barnard & Butler Stacks: PS153.N5 J66 1991
  • Oral narrative research with Black women ; ed. by Kim Marie Vaz. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c1997. (262 p.)
    Barnard & Lehman Stacks: HQ1185 .O73 1997
  • Thomas, H. Nigel. From folklore to fiction : a study of folk heroes and rituals in the Black American novel.
    New York : Greenwood Press, 1988. (200 p.)
    Barnard & Butler Stacks: PS153.N5 T47 1988
  • Tsoungui, Françoise. Clés pour le conte africain et créole. Fleuve et flamme. Paris : Conseil international de la langue française : Edicef, c1986. (190 p.)[Analysis of Haitian, Mauritian, and West African folktales.]
    Butler Stacks: GR350 .T76 1986g
  • Visiting with Miss Lou. Videorecording. Produced by the Creative Production and Training Centre. Kingston, Jamaica : Creative Production and Training Centre, 2003.[DVD video, about 55 minutes in length. In tribute to Dr. The Hon. Louise Bennett-Coverley, M.B.E., O.J., O.M., Jamaican poet, performer and cultural icon.]
    Butler Media Reserves: DVD4821

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Folktales & Proverbs

Algeria

  • Allioui, Youcef. La sagesse des oiseaux = Timsifag : contes kabyles = timucuha. Paris : L'Harmattan, 2008.
    (209 p.)
    Offsite: PN6377.T246 A55 2008g
  • Contes et légendes berbères de Ouargla = Tinfusin ; [recueillis par] Jean Delheure. Paris : Boîte à documents, 1989. (403 p.)
    Offsite: PJ2397 .C66 1989g
  • Contes merveilleux de Kabylie : narrés par Amor ben Moh'ammed ou 'Ali de Taoudouchth et notes en kabyle par Auguste Moulieras ; edités, traduits et presentés par Camille Lacoste Dujardin. Aix En Provence : Edisud, 1999. (182 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT298.K2 C77 1999g
  • Khater, Djouher. La rose de lumière : contes de Kabylie ; [ill., H. Mechemache]. Alger : Casbah Éditions, c2007. (219 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR353.42.K3 K5 2007g
  • Laâdj, Helima. Contes de la tradition orale kabyle ; dits à Helima Laâdj ; transcrits et adaptés en français par Larbi Rabdi. Paris : L'Harmattan, c2006. (204 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR353.42.K3 L33 2007g
  • Nacib, Youssef. Contes de Kabylie ; [ill., Rabah Kaidi et Mohamed Kada]. Paris : Editions Publisud, c1986.
    (86 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR353.42.K3 N3 1986g

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Angola

  • Barbosa, Adriano C. Contes tshokwé d'Angola ; [recueillis par Francisco et Adriano C. Barbosa et traduits par Marie-Claude Padovani]. Contes et légendes. Paris : Karthala, c1992. (198 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR358.32.C45 B2314 1992g
  • Barbosa, Adriano C. Folclore angolano : cinquenta contos quiocos : texto bilingue. Memórias e trabalhos do Instituto de Investigação Científica de Angola ; 9. Luanda : Instituto de Investigação Científica de Angola, 1973. (166 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR358.32.C45 B23 1973g
    E-book --via Black Short Fiction & Folklore
  • Ennis, Merlin W. Umbundu : folk tales from Angola ; [with comparative analysis by Albert B. Lord]. Boston : Beacon Press, c1962. (316 p.)
    Offsite (Missionary Research Library): Cd1 E59
    African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: GR358.3 .E55 1962g
    Butler Stacks: 809.867 En62
  • Estermann, Carlos. Cinquenta contos bantos do sudoeste de Angola : texto bilingue com introdução e comentários ; com a colaboração do Pe. António Joaquim da Silva. Memórias e trabalhos do Instituto de Investigação Científica de Angola ; 7. Luanda : Instituto de Investigação Científica de Angola, 1971. (296 p.)
    Butler Stacks: 967.3 An46 v.7
    E-book --via Black Short Fiction & Folklore
  • Heli, Chatelain (ed.) Folk-tales of Angola [microform] : fifty tales, (with Ki-mbundu text, literal English translation, introduction, and notes). ATLA monograph preservation program ; ATLA fiche 1990-2037. Memoirs of the American Folk-lore Society ; v. 1. Boston : Published for the American Folk-Lore Society by Houghton Mifflin, 1894. ( 315 p.)
    Burke [UTS]: 84-B1 ATLA fiche 1990-2037

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Benin

  • Adjahi Gnimagnon, Christine. Do Massé: contes fons du Bénin ; [collaborateurs, Ayékobinon Yapetchou, pour les récits ; Robert Tohomé, pour les illustrations]. La légende des mondes.
    Paris : L'Harmattan, c2002. (123 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR351.42.F65 A35 2002g
  • Aisien, Ekhaguosa. Erediauwa, Prince of Benin ; [ill. by Victor Amayo]. Benin City, Nigeria : Aisien Publishers, 1991. (96 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR351.3 .A6 1991g
  • Bene gulmanceba = Les gulmancéba du Bénin : approche sociolinguistique. Cotonou, République du Bénin : Ministère de l'enseignement supérieur et de la recherche scientifique, Direction de la recherche scientifique et technique, Commission nationale de linguistique, 1983. (101 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT541.45.G87 B46 1983
  • Eweka, Iro. Dawn to dusk : folk tales from Benin. London ; Portland, OR : Frank Cass, 1998. (183 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR351.4 .E9 1998
  • Frobenius, Leo. Mythologie de l'Atlantide, le "Poseidon" de l'Afrique noire, son sulte chez les Yorouba du Bénin ; [traduction française du Dr. F. Gidon. Préf. de. D.-P. de Pedrals] Bibliothèque scientifique. Paris : Payot, 1949. (260 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR350 .F76
  • Herskovits, Melville J. and Frances Herskovits. Dahomean narrative ; a cross-cultural analysis. African studies;
    no. 1. Evanston [Ill.] : Northwestern University Press, [1958]. (490 p.)
    ["The narratives in this collection were recorded in 1931 in Dahomey, West Africa."]
    Barnard Stacks: GR360.D3 H4
    Butler Stacks & African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler (1998 edition): GR351.4 .D35 1998
    Offsite (Missionary Research Library): Cd1 H572
    E-book --via Black Short Fiction and Folklore (Alexander Street)
  • Mama, Raouf. Comment caméléon devint source de sagesse : contes fon du Bénin. La légende des mondes. Paris : L'Harmattan, c2008. (84 p.)
    Offsite: GR351.42.F65 M35 2008g
  • Mensah, Israël (ed.) Contes et légendes du Bénin ; [recueillis par Mémoire d'Afrique ; avec la collaboration de Joëlle Bernardin, Anne-Béatrice Muller et Jules Zannou ; préface d'Emile Derlin Zinsou]. Contes et légendes. Paris : Karthala, c2005. (159 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR351.4 .C66 2005g
  • Sylvain Prudhomme (dir.) Contes du pays tammari (Bénin) ; [recueillis par Geoffroy Bergeron...et al.] Contes et légendes. Paris : Karthala, c2003. (193 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT541.45.S65 C668 2003g

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Botswana

  • Curtis, Susheela. Tswana tales : mainane. Gaborone, Botswana : Botswana Book Centre, 1975. (70 p.) Butler Stacks: GR358.7 .C87
  • Heinz, Hans-Joachim & B. Maguire. The ethno-biology of the !kõ Bushmen : their ethno-botanical knowledge and plant lore. Occasional paper (Botswana Society) ; no. 1. [Gaborone] : Botswana Society, [197-]. (53 p.)
    Offsite: DT790 .O2 no.1
  • Mpulubusi, Tjako. "Barile." Gaborone : National Museum, Monuments and Art Gallery, 1995. (2 v.)
    Butler Stacks: GN657.B64 M681 1995g

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Burkina Faso

  • Coulibaly, Adama. Contes toussian de Péni, Burkina Faso: N siirin siirin. Collection Terrain. Paris : Harmattan, 2006. (60 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR351.72.T87 C685 2006g
  • Diep, François et François Moïse Bamba (comp.) Contes et légendes du Burkina-Faso, recueillis en pays sénoufo ; [préface, Hassane Kassi Kouyate ; illustrations de Hassan Musa]. Aux origines du monde.
    Paris : Flies France, c2007. (223 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR351.7 .C66 2007
  • Kaboré, Roger Bila. Sous l'arbre à palabre: contes et proverbes du Burkina. Ouagadougou : Editions Firmament, [1994]. (139 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR351.7 .K33 1994
  • Lacombe, Bernard. Coeur de savane : contes d'Alassane Kanon sur Bobo-Dioulasso. Montréal : L'Harmattan, c2000. (61 p.)
    Butler Stacks: PQ2672.A2363 C6 2000g
  • Lacombe, Bernard. La femme fleuve et le lamantin: contes. La légende des mondes. Paris : L'Harmattan, c2001. (158 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR351.7 .L23 2001g
  • Metuole Somda, Jean-Baptiste. Contes dagara du Burkina Faso : 72 contes dagara ; [ill. par José-Marie Bel]. Fleuve et flamme. Paris : Conseil international de langue française, 1991. (217 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR351.72.D35 S65 1991g
  • Ouédraogo, Jean-Noël Sibiri. Le génie du baobab ; [illustrations de S'Calpa]. La légende des mondes. Paris : Harmattan, 2003. (62 p.)
    Butler Stacks: 4FEB 84295
  • Sissao, Alain-Joseph. Contes du pays des Moose : Burkina Faso. Collection UNESCO d'oeuvres représentatives. Contes et légendes. Paris : Karthala ; Paris : UNESCO, 2002. (152 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR351.72.M63 S57 2002
  • Soalma, Bwéni. Au vent des brousses du Burkina Faso : la djinna, le pélican et autres contes ; [illustré par Victoria Awa]. La légende des mondes. Paris: L'Harmattan, c2006. (95 p.)
    Butler Stacks: PQ3989.3.S746 A9 2006g

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Burundi

  • Rodegem, F. Contes du Burundi. Fleuve et flamme. Paris : CILF, 1993. (175 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR356.58 .C66 1993g

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Cameroon

  • Abéga, Séverin Cécile. Contes du sud du Cameroun : Beme et le fétiche de son père. Paris : Karthala : UNESCO, 2002. (231 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR351 .A24 2002
  • Awouma, Joseph Marie and Jourdain-Innocent Noah. Contes et fables du Cameroun : initiation à la littérature orale. Culture et tradition. Yaoundé : Éditions CLÉ, [1976-].
    Butler Stacks: GR351.A95
  • Baba Zandou. Contes peuls de Baba Zandou ; [textes recueillis et traduits par Dominique Noye ; couverture et illustrations de Solange Labatut]. Fleuve et flamme. Paris : Conseil international de la langue française: EDICEF, c1982. (176 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR350.32.F82 B3 1982
  • Baumgardt, Ursula. Une conteuse peule et son répertoire: Goggo Addi de Garoua, Cameroun: textes et analyses. Hommes et sociétés. Paris: Karthala, c2000. (548 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR351 .B39 2000g
  • Boursier, Daniel. Depuis ce jour-là--: contes des Pygmées Baka du Sud-Est Cameroun: contes bilingues, baka-français. La légende des mondes. Paris: L'Harmattan, c1994. (217 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR350.32.B28 D46 1994
  • Brou de Binao, Komenan. Mensonges des soirs d'Afrique. Pour tous. Yaoundé : Editions CLE, 1973. (63 p.)
    Offsite: PQ3989.2.B76 M45
  • Caïtucoli, Claude. Douze contes masa: avec une introduction grammaticale. Marburger Studien zur Afrika- und Asienkunde. Serie A, Afrika ; Bd. 40. Berlin: D. Reimer, 1986. (414 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR355.52.M27 C35 1986
  • Chi, Abel Shu. Our riddles and folk tales. Yaoundé : [s.n.], 1988 (Yaoundé : Printed by Pub. and Production Centre). (56 p.)
    Butler Stacks: PL8014.C172 C53 1988g
  • Colombel, Véronique de. Contes ouldémés (Nord-Cameroun): l'idiot, l'infirme, l'orphelin, et la vieille femme. Langues et cultures africaines, 33 Société d'études linguistiques et anthropologiques de France (Series) ; 409. Louvain ; Paris : Peeters, 2005. (785 p., [8] p. of plates)
    Offsite: GR351.2.U43 C65 2005
  • Dili Palaï, Clément. Contes moundang du Cameroun ; [préface du professeur Françoise Ugochukwu]. Littératures et savoirs. Paris : L'Harmattan, c2007. (169 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR351.2.M86 D55 2007g
  • East, Rupert Moultrie. Stories of old Adamawa : a collection of historical texts in the Adamawa dialect of Fulani. Farnborough (Hants.) : Gregg, 1967. (143 p.)
    African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: PL8184.A2 E3 1967
  • Eguchi, Paul Kazuhisa. Fulfulde tales of North Cameroon. African languages and ethnography ; 11. Tokyo : Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, [1978-]. (v.1-3 1978-1982)
    African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: GR351.2.F84 F84
  • Eno Belinga, Samuel-Martin. Conte d'Afrique : la guerre des fantômes. Classiques africains ; Années "lycée." Versailles : Classiques africains, [1997]. (79 p.)
    Offsite: PQ3989.2.E495 C6 1997g
  • Eno Belinga, Samuel-Martin. Découverte des chantefables beti-bulu-fang du Cameroun. Paris : Klincksieck, 1970. (192 p.)
    Butler Stacks: PL8003 .L35 no.7
  • Erlmann, Veit. Booku, eine literarisch-musikalische Gattung der Fulbe des Diamaré (Nordkamerun). Marburger Studien zur Afrika- und Asienkunde. Serie A, Afrika ; Bd. 20. Berlin : Reimer, 1979. (294 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR350.32.F82 E74
  • Essindi, François. La lance du cafard = Akon fefaé: Conte du Cameroun ; [ill. par Patrick Vallot]. Collection Contes des quatre vents. Afrique noire. Paris : Éditions l'Harmattan, 2004. (15 p.)
    Butler Stacks: PL8095.9.E88 L36 2004g
  • Fouotsa, Jérôme Ledoux. Contes et légendes bamiléké. Collection Kronik. Yaoundé, Cameroun : Presses universitaires d'Afrique, 2003. (122 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR351.2.B35
  • Godula Kosack. Contes mystérieux du pays mafa : Cameroun ; [traduits par Paul Jikedayê, Godula Kosack et Henry Tourneux]. Contes et légendes. Paris: Karthala, c1997. (270 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR360 .C272 1997g
  • Kilian-Hatz, Christa. Contes des Bakas (sud-est Cameroun) : le cycle de Waito. Wortkunst und Dokumentartexte in afrikanischen Sprachen ; Bd. 16. Köln : Rüdiger Köppe, c2002. (542 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR350.32.B28 K55 2002g
  • Kosack, Godula, Paul Jikedayê, and Henry Tourneux. Contes animaux du pays mafa : Cameroun. Contes et légendes. Paris : Karthala, c1997. (162 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR360 .C27 1994g
  • Lebeuf, Jean Paul et P.-F. Lacroix. Devinettes peules. Suivies de quelques proverbes exemples d'argots (Nord Cameroun). Paris : Mouton, 1972. (70 p.)
    Butler Stacks: 302.08 P2184 (new series, no. 12)
  • Makuchi. The sacred door and other stories : Cameroon folktales of the Beba ; [foreword by Isidore Okpewho]. Research in international studies. Africa series ; no. 86. Athens : Ohio University Press, c2008.
    (205 p.)
    Lehman Stacks: DT1 .P331 no.86
  • Matateyou, Emmanuel. An anthology of myths, legends and folktales from Cameroon : storytelling in Africa. Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, c1997. (255 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR351 .M27 1997
  • Mbunwe-Samba, Patrick. Wimbum ancestral voices : Cameroon folktale heritage. [Cameroon? : s.n., 1993].
    (30 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR351.2.L55 M38 1993
  • Nganang, Alain Patrice. L'invention du beau regard: contes citadins. Continents noirs. [Paris] : Gallimard, c2005. (195 p.)
    Butler Stacks: PQ3989.2.N4623 I58 2004
  • Noye, Dominique. Contes peuls du Nord-Cameroun : le menuisier et le cobra ; [avec une préface de Christiane Seydou]. Contes et légendes. Paris : Karthala, c1999. (189 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR350.32.F82 B3 1999g
  • Sorin-Barreteau, Liliane. Contes des gens de la montagne : chez les Mofu-Gudur du Cameroun ; [avec la collaboration de Daniel Barreteau...et al.] Contes et légendes. Paris : Karthala, 2001. (227 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT571.N65 S67 2001g
  • Stöckle, Johannes [compil. & trans.] Traditions, tales and proverbs of the Bali-Nyonga. Archiv afrikanistischer Manuskripte ; Bd. 2. Köln : R. Köppe, c1994. (250 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR351.2.B35 T73 1994g
  • Todd, Loreto. Some day been dey : West African pidgin folktales. London ; Boston : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979. (186 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR351 .T59
  • Voorhoeve, Jan. Contes bamiléké. Annalen. Reek in 8o (Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale) ; Sciences humaines ; no 89. Tervuren : Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale, 1976. (131 p.)
    Butler Stacks: 302.9675 T275 no.89

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Central African Republic

  • Arom, Simha [avec la collaboration de Jacqueline M.C. Thomas]. Conte et chantefables ngbaka-ma'bo (République centrafricaine). Société d'études linguistiques et anthropologiques de France (Series). Paris : SELAF, 1970. (237 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR360.N45 A76
  • Derive, Jean. Collecte et traduction des littératures orales : un exemple négro-africain : les contes ngbaka-ma'bo de R.C.A. Langues et civilisations â tradition orale ; 18. Paris : SELAF, 1975. (256 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR72 .D47
  • Retel-Laurentin, Anne. Contes Du Pays Nzakara (Centrafrique). Paris : Editions Karthala, c1986. (310 p.) Butler Stacks: GR357.42.N9 C6 1986g
  • Les ruses de Tèrè : contes ; [préface par Pierre Saulnier]. Atene ti be, Africa ; 2. [Bangui, Central African Republic? : s.n., 1983?]. (51 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR357.42.S33 R83 1983g
  • Saulnier, Pierre. Bangui raconte : contes de Centrafrique. La légende des mondes. Paris : L'Harmattan, c2000. (253 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR357.3 .S28 2000g

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Chad

  • Equipe de recherche de Bousso. L'espoir brisé. Réalités tchadiennes. [N'Djaména] : CEFOD, c1995. (44 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR355.5 .E8 1995g
  • Fuchs, Peter. Les contes oubliés des Hadjeray du Tchad. [préf. de Jules Hie Nea ; dessins de J. C. Bedia]. Pour mieux connaître le Tchad. Paris : L'Harmattan ; 2006. (310 p., [16] p. of plates)
    Offsite: GR355.5 .F83 2005g
  • Isaac, Tchoumba Ngouankeu (comp.) Autour du lac Tchad (contes). Oral folk tales from Cameroon and Chad, in French translation. Yaoundé : Éditions Clé, 1969. (181p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR360.C25 I8
  • Tubiana, Marie José (ed.) Contes Zaghawa. Paris : Les Quatre Jeudis, [1962, c1961]. (206 p.)
    Offsite: 809.866 T79

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Congo

  • Dennett, R.E. Notes on the folklore of the Fjort (French Congo) [electronic resource]. London : Pub. for the Folk-lore Society by D. Nutt, 1898. (169 p.)
    E-book --via "Black Short Fiction and Folklore" (Alexander Street)
  • Knappert, Jan. Myths and legends of the Congo. African writers series ; 83. Nairobi : Heinemann Educational Books, 1971. (218 p.)
    Butler Stacks & African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: GR360.C6 K6 1971
    Offsite: OG25 K67
  • N'Kaloulou, Bernard. Le liêvre et le caméléon: contes du Congo-Brazzaville. La légende des mondes. Paris : L'Harmattan, c2006. (90 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR357.5 .N53 2006g

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Cote d'Ivoire

  • Amon d'Aby, F.J. La mare aux crocodiles : contes et légendes populaires de Côte d'Ivoire ; [préf. de Jules Hie Nea ; dessins de J. C. Bedia]. Abidjan : Nouvelles éditons africaines, c1973. (122 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR360.I9 A46
  • Anoma Kanié, L. Quand les bêtes parlaient aux hommes: contes africains : suivi des Fables de La Fontaine traduites en créole ivoirien. Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire : Nouvelles Editions africaines, [c1974]. (63 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR350 .K35
    E-book --via Black Short Fiction and Folklore
  • Les Baoulés d'après leurs dictions et proverbes ; [éditeur, Cyprien Arbelbide]. Tiassalé [Côte d'Ivoire] : s.n., 1974. (ca. 100 p.)
    Butler Stacks: PN6519.B34 B3
  • Cangaley, Manny. The voice of the elders : an evening of storytelling with the Baoulé ; trans. by Douglas A. Kibbee ; [intro. by Douglas A. Kibbee and Manny Cangaley]. Köln : Köppe, c2005. (245 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR351.82.B36 C36 2005g
  • Derive, J. and M.J. Balemory Barro. Ntalen jula = Contes dioula ; [illustrateur, Seka-Seka]. Collection bilingue (Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire). Abidjan : CEDA: Institut de linguistique appliquée, c1980. (185 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR350.32.D98 N78 1980
  • Giray-Saul, Eren. Nsiirin! Nsiirin! : Jula folktales from West Africa ; [with the assistance of Awa Outtarra & Jean Gô]. East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [1996?] (271 p., 8 p. of plates)
    Barnard & Butler Stacks: GR350.32.D98 G57 1996
  • Kouadio, Yao Jérôme. Les proverbes baoulé (Côte d'Ivoire) : types, fonctions et actualité. 2e éd., rev. et corr. Abidjan [Cote d'Ivoire] : Editions Dagekof, 2006. (346 p.)
    Offsite: PL8056.B36 K68 2006g
  • Séry, Kouakou. La danse des bossus. Contes baoulé (Côte d'Ivoire) ; livre 1. Paris : Klanba Editions, c2001.
    (133 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR351.82.B36 D36 2001g

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DR Congo

  • Biebuyck, Daniel P. and Brunhilde Biebuyck. We test those whom we marry : an analysis of thirty-six Nyanga tales. Traditional cultures in modern Africa ; 1. Budapest : African Research Program, Department of Regional Geography, Loránd Eötvös University, 1987. (115 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR357.82.N93 B5 1987g
  • Chansons et proverbes lingala ; textes rassemblés et traduits par A. Dzokanga ; [avec la collaboration de Anne Behaghel ; ill. de Charles Popineau]. Fleuve et flamme. Paris : Conseil international de la langue française : Edicef, c1993. (162 p.)
    Offsite: PL8055.8 .C47
  • Collectif d'auteurs congolais. Contes, proverbes et devinettes bakongo: à l'écoute des anciens. Roissy-en-Brie [France] : Editions cultures croisées, [2003]. (99 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR357.8 .C68 2003g
  • Colloque de Bandundu Dieu dessecha le fleuve: la relation homme-dieu dans les traditions orales (Rép. du Zaïre): rapport du VIIe colloque de Bandundu. Publications (Ceeba). Série I ; v. 7. Bandundu, République du Zaïre: Centre d'études ethnologiques, c1978. (320 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR357.8 .C65 1978g
  • de Rop, A. and E. Boelaert. Versions et fragments de l'épopée mó_ngo_, Nsong'a Lianja. Partie II, versions 7 â 56. Etudes Aequatoria ; 1. Mbandaka, Zaïre : [Annales Aequatoria], 1983. (517 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR357.82.M64 V47 1983
  • Elle partit avec une calebasse trouée: récits de littérature: kwese, ngongo, suku. Ceeba. Publications - Ceeba: Series II ; v. 14. Bandundu, Zaïre : Ceeba, 1974. (193 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GN654 .A152 v.14
  • Fables de nos villages. "Contes africains" ; 2. Kinshasa : Editions Saint Paul Afrique, [1981]. (68 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR350 .F3 1981
  • Faïk-Nzuji Madiya, C. Tu le leur diras : le récit véridique d'une famille congolaise plongée au coeur de l'histoire de son pays. Histoire(s). Bruxelles : Alice, c2005. (362 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT657 .F35 2005g
  • Gisaangi, Sona. Dieu nous a tout confié excepté cette forêt. Mythes mbala ; 4. Publications (Ceeba). Série II ; v. 12. Bandundu : Ceeba, 1974. (106 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GN654 .A152 v.12
  • Hochegger, Hermann (ed.) Femme, pourquoi pleures-tu? : mythes buma. Publications (Ceeba). Série II ; v. 5. Bandundu, République du Zaïre : Ceeba, 1972. (213 p., [1] leaf of plates)
    Butler Stacks: GN654 .A152 v.5
  • Hochegger, Hermann. La polygamie dans les mythes sakata. Publications (Ceeba). Série II ; v. 37. Bandundu [République du Zaïre] : Ceeba, c1977. (288 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR357.82.S24 H63
  • Hochegger, Hermann. Le Soleil ne se leva plus : le conflit social dans les mythes buma. Publications (Ceeba). Série II ; v. 20. Bandundu, République de Zaïre : Ceeba, 1975. (16 leaves, 244 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GN654 .A152 v.20
  • Kingala and Ngwabana (eds.) Tu es méchant, personne ne te mangera! : mythes hungana. Publications (Ceeba). Série II ; v. 28. Bandundu, République du Zaïre : Ceeba Publications, 1975. (227 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GN654 .A152 v.28
  • Légendes africaines. Collection "Contes africains" ; 3. Kinshasa : Editions Saint Paul Afrique, 1981. (78 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR350 .L43 1981
  • Leo Frobenius. Mythes et contes populaires des riverains du Kasaï ; [trans. by Claude Murat]. Studien zur Kulturkunde ; 70. Bd. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GMBH, 1983. (326 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR357.8 .D5314 1983
  • Matadiwamba Kamba Mutu. Proverbes pelende (Rép. du Zaïre). CEEBA publications. Série II ; vol. 120. Bandundu, Rép. du Zaïre : CEEBA, c1996. (203 p.)
    Offsite: PN6519.B33 M37 1996g
  • Mayembi, Kampusu. Il tua son père, le python: mythes ngongo ; [récits ngongo de Kingoy-Kisemi]. Publications (Ceeba). Série II ; v. 27. Bandundu, République du Zaïre: Ceeba, 1975. (129 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR357.82.N45 I4 1975
  • Molinga Nganda mo Lotanda. L'épopée d'Iyeli-i-Mpaha: histoire des Ntomba de Bikoro au Zaïre. Kinshasa : Editions Centre de Vulgarisation Agricole, 1988. (47 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR357.8 .M6 1988g
  • Mudindaambi, Lumbwe. Pourquoi le coq ne chante plus? : [recueil]. Mythes mbala ; 2. Publications (Ceeba). Série II ; v. 8. Bandundu, Zaïre: Ceeba, 1973. (206 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GN654 .A152 v.8
  • [Muhunga] Ilunga & Wahuile. Elle accoucha de douze calebasses : mythes tshokwe. Publications (Ceeba). Série II ; v. 38. Bandundu : Ceeba, 1977. (151 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GN654 .A152 v.38
  • Mulenge, Nziata. Pour la guérir, il faut ton coeur! : mythes pende. Publications (Ceeba). Série II ; v. 9. Bandundu: Ceeba, 1974. (105 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GN654 .A152 v.9
  • Ngonduma, Konzi. Raconte-moi: contes. [Congo? : s.n., 1991]. (77 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR350 .N56 1991g
  • Ross, Mabel H. & Barbara K. Walker (comp.) "On another day ..." : tales told among the Nkundo of Zaire ; [with a foreword by Daniel J. Crowley]. Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books, 1979. (596 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR357.82.N57 O52
  • Stappers, Leo. (comp.) Textes luba ; contes d'animaux ; [version française par Jacques L. Vincke]. Annalen. Reeks in 8o. Wetenschappen van de mens ; nr 41. Tervuren : Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale, 1962.
    (115 p.)
    Butler Stacks: 302.9675 T275 no.41
  • Tawaba, Labi et Tamundel Mubele. Qui la sortira de cette pierre? : mythes yansi. Publications (Ceeba).
    Série II ; v. 11. Bandundu : Ceeba, 1974. (167 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GN654 .A152 v.11
  • Verbeek, Léon. Contes de l'inceste, de la parenté et de l'alliance chez les Bemba, (République démocratique du Congo). Paris : Éditions Karthala, 2006. (501 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR358.42.B43 V47 2006

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Egypt

  • El-Shamy, Hasan M. Folktales of Egypt ; [foreword by Richard M. Dorson]. Folktales of the world. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1980. (34 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR355 .E47

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Equatorial Guinea

  • A'Bodjedi, Enènge. Ndòwé tales 1 : the Ndòwé series. New York : Ndòwé International Press, c1999.
    (260 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR350.42.N35 A34 1999g
  • Cuentos de los ndowe de Guinea Ecuatorial ; [recopilados por] Jacint Creus. Malabo : Centro Cultural Hispano-Guineano Ediciones, 1991. (285 p.) [In Kombe & Spanish.]
    Butler Stacks: GR350.42.N35 C84 1991

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Ethiopia

  • Kidane, Sahlu. Borana folktales : a contextual study ; [ed. advisor, P.T.W. Baxter]. London : HAAN ; New Brunswick, [N.J.]: Transaction Pub., 2002. (183 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR356.2.B37 K53 2002g
  • Leslau, Wolf. Gurage folklore: Ethiopian folktales, proverbs, beliefs, and riddles. Studien zur Kulturkunde ; 63. Bd. Veröffentlichungen des Frobenius-Instituts an der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität zu Frankfurt/Main. Wiesbaden : F. Steiner, 1982. (327 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR356.2.G87 L47 1982
  • Shack, William A. Gods and heroes : oral traditions of the Gurage of Ethiopia ; translated and edited with an introd. and notes by William A. Shack and Habte-Mariam Marcos. Oxford [Eng.] : Clarendon Press, 1974.
    (158 p.)
    Butler Stacks: PJ9288.8 .S5
  • Sumner, Claude. Living springs of wisdom and philosophy.Addis Ababa : Addis Ababa University, 1999-
    [v. 1. Problematics of an African philosophy ; v. 2. Ethiopian sources of African philosophy.]
    Butler Stacks: B5305 .S925 1999g (v. 2 only)
  • Sumner, Claude. Oromo wisdom literature. Addis Ababa : Gudina Tumsa Foundation, 1995- 2 v.
    Butler Stacks: GR360.E8 S85 1995g

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Gabon

  • Békalé, Éric Joël. Le voleur de rêve: contes. La légende des mondes. Paris : L'Harmattan, c2003. (67 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR357.6 .B45 2003g
  • Contes du Gabon ; [couverture et illustrations par José Marie Bel]. Fleuve et flamme. Paris : Conseil international de la langue française : EDICEF, c1991. (111 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR357.6 .C65 1991g
  • Lembanaka, Hélène. Tales from Gabon : volume 1 ; [trans. and foreword by Veronica Forwood]. [London] : Africa Audio-visual Library, 2005. (50 p.)
    Offsite: GR357.6 .L46 2005g
  • Raponda-Walker, André. Contes gabonais ; [accompagnée de 47 compositions originales de Roger-L.
    Sillans ; préface de Pierre Alexandre]. Classiques africains (Présence africaine (Firm)). [Paris] : Présence africaine, [1993], c1967. (490 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR360.G3 W3 1993g
  • Trilles, H. Contes et légendes fang du Gabon (1905) ; [édité par Henry Tourneux ; préface de Jean-Emile Mbot]. Contes et légendes. Paris : Éditions Karthala, c2002. (254 p.)
    African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: GR357.62.F34 T75 2002g

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Gambia

  • Kamara, Bakari. Two hunting tales of the Senegambia ; [ed. by Daphne S. Goering ; trans. by Abdoulie Bayo and Demba Sanyang ; ill. by J.C. Jallow]. Banjul : Oral History Division for the Gambia Traditional Griot Society, 1984. (57 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR359.9 .K35 1984g
  • Magel, Emil A. Folktales from the Gambia : Wolof fictional narratives. Washington, D.C. : Three Continents Press, c1984. (208 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR352.92.W64 F6
  • Seck, Abasse. Wollof wisdom. Kanifing, Gambia : Fulladu Publishers, 2009. (30 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR352.72.W64 S43 2009g

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Ghana

  • Accam, T.N.N. Dangme and Klama proverbs ; [edited with an annotated index by M. E. Kropp Dakubu]. 2 v. Legon : Institute of African Studies, 1972. [v. 1. Klama [Krobo] aphorisms.]
    Butler Stacks: PL8043.A38 A33 1972g [v. 1 only]
  • Appiah, Peggy and K.A. Appiah ; with Ivor Agyeman-Duah. Bu me be : Akan proverbs. Accra [Ghana] : The Centre for Intellectual Renewal, [2001]. (1214 p.)
    Butler Stacks & African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: PN6519.A625 A66 2001g
  • Asihene, E.V. Traditional folk-tales of Ghana. Studies in African literature (Lewiston, N.Y.) ; v. 5. Lewiston, NY : The Edwin Mellen Press, c1997. (412 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR351.6 .A77 1997
  • Daddy, S. Kwaku. The folklore of Ghana ; [S. Kwaku Daddy ; edited by Marianne Locke and Joseph Tarica]. San Francisco, CA : African Heritage Records, Tapes & Books, c1994. (46 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR351.6 .D33 1994
  • Gyesi-Appiah, L. Ananse stories retold : some common traditional tales. Oxford : Heinemann Educational Publishers, 1997. (140 p.)
    Butler Stacks: PZ8.1 .G98 An 1997g
  • Kuwabong, Dannabang. Naa ko_nga: a collection of Dagaaba folktales. Accra : Woeli Publishing Services, 1992. (81 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR351.72.D35 K89 1992g
  • Omaboe, Grace. By the fireside. Tema [Ghana] : Ghana Pub. Corp., [1995-].
    Butler Stacks: PZ8.1.O43 B98 1995g
  • Rattray, R.S. Akan-Ashanti folk-tales, collected and trans. by Capt. R. S. Rattray and ill. by Africans of the Gold Coast Colony. Oxford : The Clarendon Press, 1930. (275, p. illus., plates)
    African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: GR360.A55 R3
    Butler Stacks (1969 edition): GR360.A55 R3 1969
  • Rattray, R.S. Ashanti proverbs, the primitive ethics of a savage people, trans. from the original with grammatical and anthropological notes, by R. Sutherland Rattray ; [with a preface by Sir Hugh Clifford]. Oxford : The Clarendon Press, 1916. (190 p.)
    Offsite (Missionary Research Library): Cd1 R1897
    Barnard Stacks (1969 edition): PN6519.A8 R3

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Guinea

  • Holas, B. Contes kono: traditions populaires de la forêt guinéenne. Paris : G.-P. Maisonneuve et Larose, 1975. (342 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR352.62.K65 H64
  • Marité, Ibrahima Khalil. Les dits de nul et de tous: la saga des Séréwas: recueil de récits folkloriques. Conakry : République populaire revolutionnaire de Guinée, Permanence nationale du Parti-Etat de Gui[n]ée, [198-?]. (325 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT543.45.M34 M37 1980z
  • Meyer, Gérard. Contes du pays badiaranké : Guinée, Guinée-Bissau, Sénégal. Contes et légendes. Paris : Karthala, c1995. (327 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR352.52.B33 M49 1995
  • Meyer, Gérard. Contes du nord de la Guinée. Contes et légendes. Paris : Karthala, c1999. (208 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR352.6 .M494 1999g

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Kenya

  • Florence, Namulundah. From our mothers' hearths : Bukusu folktales and proverbs. Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, c2005. (278 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR356.42.K87 F56 2005
  • Harman, Humphrey. Men of Masaba. New York : Viking Press, [1971]. (187 p.)
    Rare Book, Butler 6th Fl. East: HISTCHIL Unclassified
  • King, Bridget. Nyalgondho wuod-Ombare and the lost woman from Lake Victoria ; [illustrated by Joel Oswaggo]. African art and literature series. Nairobi, Kenya : Jacaranda Designs, 1991. (30 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR356.42.L83 N93 1991
  • Kioi wa Mbugua. Inkishu : myths and legends of the Maasai ; [edited by Bridget A.C. King ; poems by Goro wa Kamau]. African art and literature series. Nairobi, Kenya : Jacaranda Designs, 1994. (73 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR356.42.M37 K56 1994g
  • Makila, F.E. Bukusu folktales. Nairobi : Kenya Literature Bureau, 1986. (120 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR356.42.B83 M3 1986g
  • Maneniang', Mubima. The Lianja epic. Poets of Africa ; 13. Nairobi : East African Educational Publishers, 1999.
    (126 p.)
    Butler Stacks & African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: PR9381.9.M259 L52 1999g
  • Mwangi, Rose. Kikuyu folktales. Nairobi : East African Literature Bureau, [1970]. (131 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR360.K5 G4
  • Mwikali, Tabitha. Hyena's tricks ; [developed and translated by David G. Maillu ; illustrations by Julius Wambua]. Nairobi : Maillu Publishing House, 1989. (56 p.)
    Offsite: PL8351.9.M855 U43 1989g
  • Ndoro, Joyce. The hare's horns, and other stories. East African readers library ; no. 16. [Nairobi] : East African Publishing House, [c1968]. (35 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR356.4.K45 N3
  • Njururi, Ngumbu. Tales from Mount Kenya ; [illustrations by Adrienne Kennaway]. Nairobi : Transafrica Publishers, c1975. (113 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR360.K5 N55 1975
  • Onyango-Ogutu, B. and A.A. Roscoe (comp.) Keep my words: [Luo oral literature]. Traditional African library ; 1. Lusaka : East African Pub. House, 1974. (159 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR356.42.L83 K43
  • Osogo, John N.B. The bride who wanted a special present, and other tales from western Kenya. Kampala : East African Literature Bureau, [1966]. (63 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR360.K43 O8
  • Wolf, Jan de [with K.F. de Blois]. Bukusu stories : sixty Chingano from Western Kenya ; Bukusu texts and English translations. Beiträge zur Afrikanistik ; Bd. 17. Münster : Lit, c2005. (175 p.)
    Butler Stacks: PL8092.B876 W64 2005g
  • Wolf, Jan J. de. Bukusu tales : collected around 1936 by research assistants of Dr. Günter Wagner (1908-1952). Beiträge zur Afrikanistik ; Bd. 5. Münster : Lit, [1995]. (93 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT433.545.K88 B85 1995g
  • Wood, Susan. Tales from Africa. Nairobi, Kenya : Jacaranda Designs, 2004. (170 p.)
    Butler Stacks: PR6073.O6148 T35 2004g

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Liberia

  • Creel, J. Luke. Folk tales of Liberia ; [in collaboration with Bai Gai Kiahon ; illus. by Carol Hoorn Fraser]. Minneapolis : T.S. Denison, [1960]. (144 p.)
    Offsite: 809.866 C86
  • Liberian folklore from five counties. Monrovia : Society of Liberian Authors, 1974. (130 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR352 .L52
  • Ndebe, Barnabas S. Tales from Bandiland. Liberian studies monograph series ; no. 4. Newark, Del. : Liberian Studies Association in America, c1974. (311 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR352.2.G34 N33
  • Pelima, Moses and W. Sankawulo. Fables and legends of Liberia. [S.l.: s.n., 19--]. (89 p.)
    Butler Stacks: PZ8.1 .F13
  • Pinney, Peter, (comp.) Legends of Liberia. [Monrovia: Society of Liberian Authors, 1973?]. (299 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR352 .P56 1973

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Libya

  • Chambard, Roger ...[et al.]. Proverbes libyens. Hommes et sociétés. Paris : GELLAS: Editions Karthala, c2002.
    (602 p.)
    Butler Stacks & African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: PN6519.A7 P7614 2002

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Madagascar

  • Chapus, Georges Sully. Les Imériniens dans les "contes des anciens". Montpellier : Impr. Causse, Graille and Castelnau, 1930. (160 p.)
    Offsite: 896M29 C369
  • Decary, Raymond. Contes et légendes du sud-ouest de Madagascar. Littératures populaires de toutes les nations ; nouv. sér., t. 11. Paris : G.-P. Maisonneuve et Larose [1964]. (232 p.)
    Offsite: 809.8 L7182 t.11
  • Ferrand, Gabriel (ed.) Contes populaires malgaches. Collection de contes et chansons populaires ; XIX. Paris : E. Leroux, 1893. (266 p.)
    Offsite: 896M29 F41
  • Gueunier, N. Si mimi mwongo, watu wa zamani = Ce n'est pas moi qui mens, ce sont les gens d'autrefois : contes en dialecte swahili du village de Marodoka (Nosy Be, Madagascar) ; [ill. by N. Razafintsalama]. Zanzibar : EACROTANAL, 1980. (217 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR357.2.A48 S5
  • Haring, Lee. Malagasy tale index. FF communications ; no. 231. Helsinki : Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 1982. (505 p.)
    Butler Stacks: 809.8 F719 no.231
  • Paulhan, Jean. Rasoutolane : conte malgache. Littérature (Editions Prat/Europa). Eure-et-Loire : Prat/Europa, c1990. (53 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR 357 .P38 1990
  • Rabearison. Contes et légendes de Madagascar. [Tananarive : T.P.F.L.M.], 1994. (76 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR360.M2 R32 1994g
  • Ravololomanga, Bodo. Le lac bleu : et autres contes de Madagascar : contes bilingues malgache-français. Collection "La légende des mondes." Paris : L'Harmattan, c1996. (125 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR357 .R38 1996g
  • Sambo, Clément. Langages non conventionnels à Madagascar : argot des jeunes et proverbes gaillards. Dictionnaires et langues. Paris : Karthala: INALCO, 2001. (392 p.)
    Butler Stacks: PL5379 .S26 2001g
  • Schrive, Maurice. Contes Betsimisaraka : contes du nord-est de Madagascar ; [ill. by Max Razafindrainbe]. Tamatave [Madagascar] : Alliance Française à Madagascar, 1992. (272 p.)
    Butler Stacks & African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: GR360.M2 C662 1992g
  • Schrive, Maurice. Contes antakarana : contes du nord de Madagascar ; [ill. by Roddy]. Angano malagasy = Contes de Madagascar. Antananarivo : Foi et Justice ; Antsiranana: Alliance Française d'Antsiranana, 1990. (280 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR360.M2 C66 1990g
  • Vally-Samat, Renée. Contes et légendes de Madagascar. Collection des contes et légendes de tous les pays. Paris : F. Nathan, 1956. (252 p.)
    Offsite: Cd1 V195

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Malawi

  • Dicks, Ian D. Wisdom of the Yawo people : Yawo proverbs and stories = Lunda iwa wanduwa Ciyawo: yitagu ni adisi sya Ciyawo. Kachere books ; no. 23. Zomba, Malawi : Kachere Series, 2006. (135 p.)
    Offsite: GR358.52.Y36 D53 2006
  • Nyaviyuyi. Old Nyaviyuyi in performance : seven tales from northern Malawi as told by a master performer of the oral narrative ; [coll., trans., and presented with performance directions by Tito Banda ; musical notation by Mjura Mkandawire and Andrea Matthews]. Mzuzu, Malawi : Mzuni Publications, Mzuzu University, 2006.
    (90 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR358.52.T86 N93 2006g
  • Rattray, R.S. Some folk-lore stories and songs in Chinyanja, with English translation and notes ; [with pref. by Alexander Hetherwick]. New York : Negro Universities Press, [1969]. (224 p.)
    Offsite: PL8593.8 .R3 1969
  • Schoffeleers, J.M. & A.A. Roscoe. Land of fire : oral literature from Malawi. Malawian writers series ; 19. Limbe, Malawi : Popular Publications ; Lilongwe, Malawi : Likuni Press & Pub. House, c1985. (241 p.)
    African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: GR358.5 .S36 1985

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Mali

  • Bâ, Amadou Hampaté. Il n'y a pas de petite querelle : nouveaux contes de la savane ; [contes choisis et présentés par Hélêne Heckmann]. Paris : Stock, c1999. (167 p.)
    Butler Stacks & African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: PQ3989.2.H3516 H6 1999g
  • Bâ, Amadou Hampaté. La poignée de poussiêre: contes et récits du Mali. Abidjan : Nouvelles Éditions Africaines, 1987. (99 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR352.8 .B3 1987g
  • Calame-Griaule, Geneviève (ed.) Contes dogon du Mali. Paroles en miroir ; no 3. Paris : Karthala :
    Langues o' (Inalco), c2006. (243 p.)
    African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: DT551.45.D64 C66 2006g
    Butler Stacks: DT551.45.D64 C66 2006g
  • Cangaley, Manny. The voice of the elders : an evening of storytelling with the Baoulé ; [trans. by Douglas A. Kibbee] ; with introduction by Douglas A. Kibbee and Manny Cangaley. Wortkunst und Dokumentartexte in afrikanischen Sprachen ; Bd. 22. Köln : Köppe, c2005.
    Butler Stacks: GR351.82.B36 C36 2005g
  • Contes soninké ; illustrations de Sophie Mondésir. Paris : Présence africaine, c1987. (132 p.)
    Butler Stacks: PL8686.8 .C76 1987g
  • Courlander, Harold and Ousmane Sako. The Heart of the Ngoni : heroes of the African kingdom of Segu.
    New York : Crown, c1982. (178 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR350.32.B3 H47 1982
  • Diarra, Bakary. Recueil thématique de proverbes et adages bamanan. Bamako : Soro Print Color, 2003.
    (60 p.)
    African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: PN6519.B3 D53 2003
  • Dieynaba Allaye Tangara & Boukari Allaye Amadou. Des preux, des belles...des larrons : contes du Mali ; [traduits du peul et adaptés par Christiane Seydou ; illustrations de Lucia Daniel]. Paris : Nubia, c1987.
    (95 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR352.8 .D47 1987g
  • Doumbi-Fakoly. Une veillée au village : contes du Mali. La légende des mondes. Paris : L'Harmattan, c2004.
    (117 p.)
    Butler Stacks: PQ3989.2.D639 V455 2004g
  • Jansen, Jan. Le secrets du Manding : les récits du sanctuaire Kamabolon de Kangaba (Mali). CNWS publications ; no. 115. Leiden, The Netherlands : Research School of Asian, African and Amerindian Studies, 2002. (163 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT551.45.M36 J375 2002g
  • Jolly, Éric and Nouhoum Guindo (eds.) Le pouvoir en miettes: récits d'intronisation d'un hogon (pays dogon, Mali). Classiques africains ; 29. Paris : Association Classiques africains, 2003. (491 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR352.82.D6 P38 2003g
  • Kounta, Albakaye Ousmane. Contes de Tombouctou et du Macina. Collection "La légende des mondes." Paris : L'Harmattan, c1987-1989. (2 v.)
    Butler Stacks & African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: PQ3989.2.K577 C6 1987
  • Lavoie, Richard. How Samba became viceroy (Mali) [videorecording]. Folk tales and legends. Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities, c1991. (26 min.,VHS.)
    Butler Media Res, 208 Butler: VIDEORES01731
  • Le Coutour, Noël. Penda, la belle Bambara : contes de l'Afrique noire. La légende des mondes. [Paris] : L'Harmattan, c2001. (70 p.)
    Butler Stacks & African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: GR350 .L44 2001g
  • Niane, Djibril Tamsir. Sundiata : an epic of old Mali ; [translated by G.D. Pickett]. Longman African writers. Harlow, UK : Longman, 1994, c1965. (101 p.)
    Milstein [Butler]: DT532.2 .N513 1994g
  • Seydou, Christiane. Contes peuls du Mali. Tradition orale. Paris : Karthala, c2005. (489 p.)
    Butler Stacks & African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: GR350.32.F82 S49 2005g
  • Soumaré, Penda. L'arbre et l'enfant ; Sassa: 2 contes du Mali trilingues : français, bambara, soninké. La légende des mondes : Contes du Mali. Paris : L'Harmattan, c1996. (79 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR352.8 .S67 1996g
  • Thoyer, Annik. Le riche et le pauvre et autres contes bamanan du Mali : textes bilingues. Paris : L'Harmattan, 1997. (212 p.)
    Offsite & African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: GR350.32.B3 T56 1997
  • Traoré, El Hadj Sadia (comp.) A l'écoute des anciens du village : [contes et legendes]. Collection Hier. Bamako : Éditions populaires, c1972. (104 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR352.8 .T7

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Mauritania

  • Alliance franco-mauritanienne de Kaedi (région du Gorgol). Contes mauritaniens de la vallée du fleuve. Nouakchott : Alliance franco-mauritanienne de Kaedi, 2006. (128 p.)
    Offsite: GR352.95 .C68 2006g
  • Ebnou, Mousa Ould et Mohamedou Ould Mohameden (eds.) Encyclopédie de la culture populaire mauritanienne : contes et proverbes de Mauritanie. Paris : L'Harmattan, c2008. (3 v.)
    Butler Stacks: GR352.95 .E539 2008g
  • Tauzin, Aline. Contes arabes de Mauritanie. Hommes et sociétés. Paris : Editions Karthala, c1993. (204, 84 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR352.95 .C66 1993

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Mauritius

  • Auleear, Dawood and Lee Haring. Indian folktales from Mauritius. Chennai : National Folklore Support Centre, 2006. (116 p.)
    Offsite: GR360.M343 I63 2006
  • Du Pavillon, Berthe. Le patois créole, Île Mauríce. [Vacoas, Île Maurice : Impr. Petite Ourse], 1977. (49 p.)
    Offsite: PN6519.C8 D8 1977

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Morocco

  • Alaoui, My Hachem Hachimi (comp.) and Hamid Moqadem (trans.) Contes marocains du Tafilalet. Fleuve et flamme. Paris : Conseil international de la langue française, c1989. (114 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR353.3 .A42 1989g
  • Bar-Itzhak, Haya and Aliza Shenhar (eds.) Jewish Moroccan folk narratives from Israel. Jewish folklore and anthropology series. Detroit, Mich. : Wayne State University Press, c1993. (205 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR98 .J49 1993
  • Bentolila, Fernand. Proverbes berbères : bilingue français-berbère. [Paris] : L'Harmattan ; Awal, c1993.
    (178 p.)
    Offsite: PN6519.B44 P76 1993
  • Berger, Henri. Sultans, sorcery and the supernatural. London : Chancellor, 1992. (207 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR353.3 .B47 1992g
  • Chadli, El Mostafa. Contes populaires de Maknassa (Maroc). Collection Europe-Maghreb. Paris : L'Harmattan, c2006. (124 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR353.3 .C435 2006g
  • Contes berbères de l'Atlas de Marrakech ; [recueillis et traduits par] Alphonse Leguil ; [commentaires d'Annick Zennaki]. 2. éd. Paris : L'Harmattan, c2000. (276 p.)
    African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: GR353.2.B43 C65 2000g
    Butler Stacks (1st ed.): GR353.2.B43 C65 1988g
  • Dwyer, Daisy Hilse. Images and self-images : male and female in Morocco. New York : Columbia University Press, 1978. (194 p.)
    Burke [UTS] LC Stacks: GR353.3 .D89 1978
  • El Koudia, Jilali. Moroccan folktales ; trans. from the Arabic by Jilali El Koudia and Roger Allen ; [with critical analysis by Hasan M. El-Shamy]. Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2003. (183 p.)
    Barnard & Butler Stacks: GR353.3 .E4 2003
    African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: GR353.3 .E4 2003
  • F¯as¯i, Muhammad. Attoche et Fadhel : contes de Fês (Maroc). Genêve : Slatkine, 2000. (254 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR353.3 .F373 2000g
  • F¯as¯i, Muhammad. Contes fasis. Prosateurs étrangers modernes. Rabat : C.C.C.N.A., 1988. (247 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR353.3 .F37 1988g
  • Hamri, Mohamed. Tales of Joujouka. Capra chapbook series ; no. 35. Santa Barbara, Calif. : Capra Press, 1975. (47 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR353.3 .H3513
    Rare Book, Butler 6th Fl. East: B398.2 H189
  • Kossmann, Maarten G. A study of Eastern Moroccan fairy tales. FF communications ; no. 274. Helsinki : Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 2000. (156 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR1 .F55 no.274
  • Laâbi, Jocelyne. Avec la rivière mon conte s'en est allé : contes du Maroc. Neuilly : Al Manar, 2007. (105 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR353.3 .L28 2007g
  • Laâbi, Jocelyne. Le lys et le basilic : contes marocains. Paris : Messidor/La Farandole, c1989. (88 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR353.3 .L3 1989g
  • Laoust, Emile. Contes berbères du Maroc ; textes berbères du groupe Beraber-Chleuh (Maroc central, Haut et Anti-Atlas). 2 v. Paris : Larose, 1949-1950.
    Butler Stacks: 964 R117 t.50 (v.1-2)
  • Legey, Françoise. Contes & légendes populaires du Maroc : recueillis à Marrakech. Publications de l'Institut des hautes études marocaines ; t. 16. Paris : E. Leroux, 1926. (321 p.)
    Butler Stacks: 964 R117 t.16
  • Messaoudi, Leila (comp. & trans.) Proverbes et dictons du Maroc. Casablanca : Belvisi, 1991. (180, [16] p.)
    Offsite: PN6519.A7 P765 1987g
    Butler Stacks: PN6519.A7 P76 1991g
  • Najji, Mimoun...[et al.] A la croisée des proverbes : Mansh¯ur¯at Kull¯iyat al-¯Ad¯ab wa-al-`Ul¯um al-Ins¯an¯iyah, Wajdah ; raqm 50. Mansh¯ur¯at Kull¯iyat al-¯Ad¯ab wa-al-`Ul¯um al-Ins¯an¯iyah, Wajdah. Silsilat Nadaw¯at wa-mun¯azar¯at ; raqm 14. Oujda : Université Mohammed Premier, Faculté des lettres et des science humaines, 2001. (165 p.)
    Butler Stacks: PN6519.A7 N35 2001g
  • Oucif, Georges. Contes berbères N'tifa du Maroc : le chat enrichi. Collection Contes populaires du monde. Paris : Publisud, c1994. (113 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR353.2.B43 O83 1994
  • Stroomer, Harry. An anthology of Tashelhiyt Berber folktales (South Morocco). Berber studies ; v. 2. Köln : Köppe, c2001. (219 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR353.32.B47 A55 2001
  • Thay Thay Rhozali, Najima. L'ogre entre le réel et l'imaginaire dans le conte populaire du Maroc. Critiques littéraires. Paris : L'Harmattan, c2000. (272 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR353.3 .T46 2000g
  • Westermarck, Edward. Wit and wisdom in Morocco : a study of native proverbs. London : G. Routledge & Sons, 1930. (448 p.)
    Offsite (Missionary Research Library): TkW
    Butler Stacks: 893.781 W525

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Mozambique

  • Baumbach, E.J.M. and C.T.D. Marivate. Xironga folk-tales ; [illustrations by Raymond Andrews]. Documenta (University of South Africa) ; 12. Pretoria : University of South Africa, 1973. (197 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR360.T5 B38
  • Junod, Henri Alexandre. Les chants et les contes des Ba-Ronga de la baie de Delagoa. Lausanne : G. Bridel & Cie [1897]. (327 p.)
    Butler Stacks (Nendeln: Kraus Reprint): GR360.T5 J8 1970
    E-book

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Namibia

  • Biesele, Megan. Women like meat : the folklore and foraging ideology of the Kalahari Ju/'hoan.
    Johannesburg : Witwatersrand University Press ; Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993. (225 p.)
    Barnard: GR358.82.J83 B53 1993
  • Fischer-Buder, Karin (ed.) The moon people and other Namibian stories. Windhoek, Namibia : New Namibia Books, c1996. (31 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR358.8 .M66 1996g
  • Namibia Oral Tradition Project. Muzimbikana : and other Namibian adventures ; [illustrated by Joseph Madisia]. Windhoek, Namibia : New Namibia Books, c1997. (47 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR358.8 .M895 1997g
  • Ngyengye, Dao and Christa Kilian-Hatz [in collaboration with David Naude]. Folktales of the Kxoe in the west Caprivi. Namibian African studies ; v. 5. Köln : R. Köppe, c1999. (338 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR358.82.K96 F65 1999
  • Schmidt, Sigrid. Tricksters, monsters and clever girls : African folktales-Texts and discussions. Afrika erzählt ; Bd. 8. Köln : Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2001.
    Butler Stacks: GR358.8 .S357 2001g
  • Seifert, Marc (ed.) Narrations of the Kavango : folktales and documentary texts from Northern Namibia and Southern Angola. Wortkunst und Dokumentartexte in afrikanischen Sprachen. Bd. 23. Köln : Köppe, c2006.
    (284 p.)
    Offsite: GR76 .N37 2006g

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Niger

  • Bernard, Yves. Dire la santé avec des proverbes : proverbes zarma-songay du Niger. Paris : L'Harmattan, c2007. (245 p.)
    Offsite: PN6519.Z35 B47 2007g
  • Calame-Griaule, Geneviève (ed.). Contes tendres, contes cruels du Sahel nigérien. Langage des contes. [Paris] : Gallimard, c2002. (293 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR351.92.S65 C65 2002
  • Contes djerma nigériens. [Niamey, Niger : Nouv. Impr. du Niger, 1995]. (49 p., 68 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT547.45.Z34 C66 1995g
  • Contes touaregs de l'Aïr ; [recueillis, transcrits et traduits par les] Petites soeurs de Jésus ; [introd. linguistique par Lionel Galand ; commentaries de Geneviève Calame-Griaule]. Langues et civilisations à tradition orale ; 7. Paris : Société d'études linguistiques et anthropologiques de France, 1974. (277 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR353.2.T8 L57 1974
  • Ghabdouane, Mohamed. E_lqissat e_n-te_me_ddurt-in = Le récit de ma vie ; [trans. by Karl-G. Prasse]. CNI publications ; 21. Copenhague : Carsten Niebuhr Institute of Ancient Near Eastern Studies ; Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen, 1997. (385 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT547.9.A4 G452 1997g
  • Hama, Boubou. Contes et légendes du Niger. Paris : Présence africaine, [1972-]. [v.5-6]
    Butler Stacks: PQ3989.H23 C6 1972
  • Hama, Boubou. L'Essence du verbe. Niamey, Niger : Centre d'études linguistique et historique par tradition orale, Organisation de l'unité africaine, 1978. (245 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR350.3 .I3614 1978
  • Olivier de Sardan, J.P. Quand nos pères étaient captifs : récits paysans du Niger. Paris : Nubia, 1976. (190 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR351.92.S65 Q26
  • Pucheu, Jacques. Contes haoussa du Niger. Lettres noires. Paris : Editions Karthala : Agence de coopération culturelle et technique, c1982. (200 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR351.32.H34 C66 1982
  • Solimane, Alhassane ag and Saskia Walentowitz. Ennän kel awal = Les gens de la parole disent : proverbes touaregs de l'Azawagh. [Paris] : Kephalonia, 1996. (139 p.)
    Butler Stacks: PN6519.T285 E5 1996g
  • Tersis, Nicole [avec la collaboration de Bernard Surugue]. La mare de la vérité : contes et musique zarma, Niger. Langues et civilisations à tradition orale ; 19. Paris : SELAF, 1976. (129 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR351.92.Z37 T47

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Nigeria

  • Adenubi, Mobolaji. Tales from times before. Lagos : TopCopy, 1997. (120 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR351.32.Y56 A33 1997g
  • Ajíkòbi, 'Diméjì. The symbiosis. Lagos : Prompt Books, 1999. (87 p.)
    Butler Stacks: PL8821 .A45 1999
  • Anyachonkeya, Ngozi. Once upon a time : a slice of Igbo literary heritage. Owerri [Nigeria] : Colon Concepts, 1997. (144 p.)
    Butler Stacks: PL8261.5 .A59 1997g
  • Bali, Esther. More tales from Tarokland. Lagos : Sibon Books, 1991. (89 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR351.3 .B34 1991g
  • Bali, Esther. Plays from Tarok folktales. Ibadan [Nigeria] : Sibon Books, 1994. (100 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR351.32.Y47 B35 1994
  • Bali, Esther. Taroh folktales. Ibadan : Spectrum Books, 1990. (95 p.)
    Butler Stacks: PL8014.N62 B18 1990g
  • Beier, Ulli. Yoruba myths ; [illustrated by Georgina Beier]. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1980. (82 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR351.32.Y56 Y67
  • Bergsma, Harold M. & Ruth (comp.) Tales Tiv tell ; [ill. by A. Ajayi]. Ibadan : Oxford University Press, 1969. (104 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR360.T5 B4
  • Bordinat, Philip & Peter Thomas (ed.) Revealer of secrets ; [ill. by Prue Theobalds]. African reader's library ; no. 24. Lagos : African Universities Press, 1975, c1973. (112 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR351.3 .R49
  • Dayrell, Elphinstone. Folk stories from Southern Nigeria, West Africa ; [with an introduction by Andrew Lang]. London ; New York : Longmans, Green and Co., 1910. (158 p.)
    Barnard: GR360.N5 D18 1910g
    Offsite: Cd1 D275
    Butler Stacks (New York : Negro Universities Press): GR360.N5 D18 1969
    E-book --via Black Short Fiction and Folklore
  • Edgar, Frank. Hausa tales and traditions : an English translation of 'Tatsuniyoyi na Hausa' ; [trans. and ed. by Neil Skinner ; with a foreword by M.G. Smith]. London : Cass, 1969-77.
    African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: PL8234.E3 L513
  • Egbe, R.N. Five moonlight tales. Ibadan, Nigeria : Onobonoje Publishers, 1978. (62 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR351.3 .E3 1978
  • Egudu, Romanus N. (compil. & trans.) The calabash of wisdom and other Igbo stories ; [with drawings by Jennifer Lawson]. New York : NOK Publishers, c1973. (141 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR351.32.I26 C34
  • Harris, Hermann Gundert. Hausa stories and riddles, with notes on the language etc., and a concise Hausa dictionary. Weston-super-Mare : Mendip Press, [1908]. (144 p.)
    African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: PL8231 .H37 1908g
  • Idewu Olawale and Omotayo Adu. Nigerian folk tales. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [1961]. (113 p.)
    Offsite: Cd1 I19
  • Ifie, Egbe. Living African myths. Ibadan, Nigeria : End-Time Publishing House, c1996. (183 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR351.3 .I34 1996g
  • Ihekole, Okechukwu Njoku. Birom folktales. Jos : Federal Dept. of Antiquities, National Museum, 1980. (82 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR351.32.B57 I4 1980g
  • Kuforiji, J.A. Best Nigerian folk tales : commemorative book of the United Nations Decade for Culture.
    [Ibadan : J. Kuforiji], 1990. (34 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR351.3 .K8 1990g
  • Magaji, Aloysius. Myths and legends of Bachama. Wukari [Nigeria] : The Author, 1982. (60 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR360.B3 M33 1982g
  • Masagbor, Richard. The lore of the fathers ; [illustrated by Emu Ogumor]. Surulere, Lagos : Richabek Publications, 1992. (101 p.)
    Butler Stacks: PR9387.9.M374 L67 1992
  • Monye, Ambrose Adikamkwu. Proverbs in African orature : the Aniocha-Igbo experience. Lanham, MD ;
    New York : University Press of America, 1996. (209 p.)
    Butler Stacks: PN6519.I33 M66 1996
  • Oguine, P., Mrs. Folk-tales from Igboland. Ibadan, Nigeria : Evans Bros. (Nigeria Publishers), 1986. (90 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR351.32.I34 O48 1986
  • Olunloyo, Ore. The playmates : a Nigerian folk-tale. Lagos, Nigeria : LCAC, Onikan Youth Centre, 1992.
    (25 p.)
    Butler Stacks: PR9387.9.O395 P6 1992g
  • Omoleye, Mike. Fascinating folktales. Leisure time series ; no. 1. Ibadan : Omoleye Publishing Company, 1982. (21 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR351.32.Y56 O45 1982g
  • Omoleye, Mike. Great tales of the Yorubas. Ibadan, Nigeria : Omoleye Pub. Co., 1987. (92 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR351.32.Y56 G73 1987g
  • Ovurevu, Muhammed Agidi. Tales of our land. Ilorin [Nigeria] : Printed by Kwara State Print. and Pub. Corp., 1975. (70 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR351.3 .O86
  • Owomoyela, Oyekan. Yoruba trickster tales. Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, c1997. (218 p.) Barnard & Butler Stacks: GR351.32.Y56 O86 1997
  • Pachocinski, Ryszard. Proverbs of Africa : human nature in the Nigerian oral tradition ; an exposition and analysis of 2,600 proverbs from 64 peoples. St. Paul, Minn. : Professors World Peace Academy, c1996.
    (434 p.)
    Burke [UTS] LC Stacks: PN6519.I33 P33 1996
  • Scott, Lionel F. Beads of glass, beads of stone : introduction to the Orisha and Apataki of the Yoruba religion. Brooklyn, NY : Athelia Henrietta Press, c1995. (82 p.)
    Avery Fine Arts: N7397 N5 Sco84
  • Shoki, Godwin & Egbe Ifie. A library of Niger Delta tales. Ibadan [Nigeria] : Oputoru Books, 1999. (147 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR351.32.N5 S5 1999g
  • Sigel, John. Wasan bahaushe gaskiyarsa: what the Hausa says in play, he really means. Occasional paper (University of Wisconsin--Madison. African Studies Program) ; no. 10. Madison : African Studies Program, University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1982. (40 p.)
    African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: DT515.45.H38 S491 1982g
  • Tarfa, T.S. Tales from Bura Land. Yola, Nigeria : Harazada Integrated Communications Services, c1997.
    (87 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR351.32.B87 T37 1997g
  • Tutuola, Amos. Yoruba folktales ; [illustrated by Kola Adesokan]. Ibadan, Nigeria : Ibadan University Press, 1986. (57 p.)
    Butler Stacks & African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: GR360.Y6 T88 1986g
  • Ugochukwu, Françoise. Contes igbo du Nigeria : de la brousse à la rivière. Contes et légendes. Paris : Karthala, c1992. (351 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR351.32.I34 C85 1992
  • Walker, Barbara K. The dancing palm tree and other Nigerian folktales. Lubbock, Texas : Texas Tech University Press, 1990. (102 p.)
    Butler Stacks: PZ8.1.W128 Dan 1990

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Rwanda

  • Bigirumwami, Aloys & Bernardin Muzungu. Imigani "tima-ngiro" y'u Rwanda = Les contes moraux du Rwanda. Butare [Rwanda] : Editions de l'Université nationale du Rwanda, 1987. (267, [1] p.)
    African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: PL8608.5 .I64 1987g Offsite: PL8608.5 .I64 1987g
  • Gasarabwe Laroche, Edouard. Contes du Rwanda : soirées au pays des mille collines. Collection "La légende des mondes." Paris : L'Harmattan, c1988. (199 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR356.6 .G37 1988
  • Rubangura, Léonidas. Le décepteur en littérature orale rwandaise : essai d'interprétation d'un personnage. Ruhengeri : Université nationale du Rwanda, Faculté des lettres, 1987. (152 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR356.6 .R83 1987g
  • Rugamba, Cyprien (comp.). Contes du Rwanda. Fleuve et flamme. Paris : Conseil international de la langue française : Edicef, c1983. (174 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR356.6 .C58 1983g
  • Smith, Pierre (ed.) Le Récit populaire au Rwanda. Classiques africains ; 17. [Paris] : A. Colin, [1975]. (431 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR356.6 .R4

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São Tomé & Príncipe

  • Emilio Giusti. Fablier de São Tomé = fabulário são-tomense. Fleuve et flamme. Paris : Conseil international de langue française, 1984. (145 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR360.S3 F3 1984g

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Senegal

  • Badji, Lansana. Poêmes et contes diola de Casamance ; [présentation par le professeur P.M. Sambou]. Collection Clair de lune ; no 5. Dakar : IFAN/Enda-éditions, 2000. (59 p.)
    Butler Stacks & African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: PQ3989.2.B252 P64 2000g
  • Cissé, Mamadou. Contes wolof modernes: bilingue wolof-français. "La légende des mondes." Paris : Ed. L'Harmattan, c1994. (61 p.)
    Butler Stacks & African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: PL8785.9.C57 C66 1994g
  • Copans, Jean. Contes wolof du Baol (Sénégal) ; [recueillis et adaptés par Jean Copans et Philippe Couty ; d'après une traduction de Ben Khatab Dia]. Contes et légendes. [Paris] : Karthala, c1988. (186 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR352.82.W65 C614 1988g
  • Diatta, Nazaire. Proverbes joola de Casamance. Hommes et sociétés. Paris : Karthala: Agence de la francophonie, [1998] (416 p.)
    African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: PN6519.D56 D53 1998g Offsite: PN6519.D56 D53 1998
  • Diop, Birago (comp.) Contes choisis ; [edited by Joyce A. Hutchinson]. Cambridge : Cambridge U. P., 1967.
    (176 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR350 .B4812
  • Diop, Birago. Tales of Amadou Koumba ; [translated from the French by Dorothy S. Blair]. London : Oxford University Press, 1966. (134 p.)
    Butler Stacks: 844D6231 M2
    Butler Stacks (1985 Longman ed.): GR350 .D513 1985g
  • Diop, Birago. Les Contes d'Amadou-Koumba. Collection "Contes africains." Paris : Présence africaine, 1969, c1961. (187 p.)
    Butler Stacks: PQ2664.I66 C6 1969
  • Ferry, M.P. Les Dits de la nuit : contes tenda (Sénégal oriental) ; texts transcrits et traduits. Paris : Karthala, c1983. (303 p., [8] p. of plates)
    Butler Stacks: GR350.32.T45 D58 1983
  • Floquet, François (dir.) The good and the evil (Senegal) [videorecording]. Folk tales and legends. Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities, c1991. (26 min. VHS)
    Butler Media Res, 208 Butler: VIDEORES01732
  • Fongang-Kesteloot, Lilyan. Contes, fables et récits du Sénégal. Contes et légendes. Paris : Éditions Karthala, c2006. (202 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR352.7 .C66 2006g
  • Gaden, Henri. Proverbes et maximes peuls et toucouleurs, traduits, expliqués et annotés. Paris : Institut d'ethnologie, 1931. (368 p.)
    Butler Stacks: 302.06 P218 t.16
  • Guèye, Mouhamadou Lamine. Des hommes, des femmes, du mariage-- et autres contes wolof. Collection Clair de lune ; no 9-10. Dakar : IFAN: Enda-Éditions, 2005. (159 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR352.72.W64 G83 2005g
  • Guèye, Mouhamadou Lamine. La problématique de la famille polygamique wolof dans les contes du Kajoor. [S. l. : s. n. 1996?]. (120 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR352.72.W64 G84 1996a
  • Kesteloot, Lilyan & Chérif Mbodj. Contes et mythes wolof ; [textes wolof recueillis par Seydou Ba ... et al. ; transcription wolof refaite par Pierre Guêye et Chérif Mbodj ; traductions revues par Malik Fall...et al.]. Collection Traditions orales. [Paris] : Nouvelles Editions africaines, c1983. (232 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR352.72.W64 K47 1983
  • Kesteloot, Lilyan...[et al.] Contes et mythes du Sénégal. Claire du lune ; 6. Paris : Conseil international de la langue française, 2000. (146 p.)
    African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: GR352.71 .K4 2000g
    Butler Stacks: GR352.71 .K4 2000g
  • Kesteloot, Lilyan. Du tieddo au talibe : contes et mythes wolof II. [Paris] : Présence Africaine: Agence de Coopération Culturelle et Technique ; [Dakar] : Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire ; c1989. (204 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR352.72.W64 K47 1989
  • Lacombe, Bernard. La saison opaline : contes et récits nomades, Sénégal & Burkina. Collection Ecritures. Paris : L'Harmattan, c2003. (149, [2] p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR352.7 .L33 2003g
  • Mbothiel, Sidi. Le vent de la razzia, ou, Les aventures de Amadou Sam Polel et de Goumalel : deux récits épiques peuls et français, enregistrés auprês de Sidi Mbothiel, du village de Fété Bowé, Matam. Dakar : IFAN, Département des littératures africaines, [1983]. (161 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR350.32.F82 M37 1983
  • Ndiaye, Seydou Nourou & Lilyan Kesteloot. Des contes wolof, ou, la Vie rêvée. Dakar : IFAN Cheikh Anta Diop; Enda-Editions, 1996. (70 p.)
    African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: PL8785.6 .N45 1996g
    Butler Stacks: PL8785.6 .N45 1996g (2 copies)
  • Roger, M. le baron (Jacques-François). Fables sénégalaises : recueillies de l'ouolof et mises en vers en français avec des notes destinées à faire connaître la Sénégambie, son climat, ses principales productions, la civilisation et les moeurs des habitants ; [présentation de Kusum Aggarwal]. Paris : Harmattan, 2008.
    (170 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR352.72.W64 R6 2008g
  • Schaffer, Matt (ed.) Djinns, stars, and warriors : Mandinka legends from Pakao, Senegal. African sources for African history ; v. 5. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2003. (221 p.)
    Butler Stacks & African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: GR352.72.M35 D45 2003
  • Socé, Ousmane. Karim, roman sénégalais; suivi de contes et légendes d'Afrique noir ; [par] Ousmane Socé. Bibliothèque de l'Union française. Paris : Nouvelles éditiones latines, 1966. (240 p.)
    Butler Stacks: PQ3989.D56 K3 1966
  • Terrisse, Andre. Contes et légendes du Sénégal. Collection des contes et légendes de tous les pays. Paris : F. Nathan, 1965. (251 p.)
    African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: GR360.S4 T4

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Seychelles

  • Abel, Antoine. Contes des Seychelles. Collection "Contes du monde entier." Paris : CLE international, c1981. (112 p.)
    Offsite: PQ3989.2.A3197 C6 1981g

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Sierra Leone

  • Benjei. The origin of the white race: stories. Stories and songs from Sierra Leone ; 34. Freetown : People's Educational Association of Sierra Leone, 1987. (47 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR352.3 .B46 1987g
  • Finnegan, Ruth H., comp. Limba stories and story-telling ; [compiled and translated by Ruth Finnegan]. Oxford library of African literature. Oxford : Clarendon P., 1967.
    Butler Stacks: GR360.L6 F5
  • Smith, Arthur E. E. Folktales from Freetown. Stories and songs from Sierra Leone ; 26. Freetown : People's Educational Association of Sierra Leone, 1987. (69, [1] p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR352.3 .S65 1987g
  • Yassin, Mohammed. Tales from Sierra Leone. London : Oxford University Press, 1967. (55 p.)
    Offsite: PL8013.E5 Y3

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Somalia

  • Hanghe, Ahmed Artan (comp. & trans.) Sheekoxariirooyin Soomaaliyeed / uu soo ururiyay Axmed Cartan Xaange = Folktales from Somalia. Mogadishu, Somalia : Akademiyada Soomaaliyeed Cilmiga iyo Fanka iskaashi lala yeeshay ; Uppsala, Sweden: Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, 1988. (209 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR356.3 .S47 1988
  • Siân, Hughes & M.M. Affi (trans.) A song for carrying water and other stories from Somalia = Heesta marka biyaha la dhaaminayo ; iyo sheekooyin kale oo Somaali ah. Manchester : Gatehouse, 1997. (105 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR356.3 .H8413 1997g
  • A tree for poverty : Somali poetry and prose ; collected by Margaret Laurence. Toronto : ECW Press ; Don Mills, Ont. ; Distributed by General Pub. Co., c1993. (145 p.)
    Butler Stacks & African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: PJ2534 .T74 1993
    Butler Stacks (1954 ed.): 894So5 L37

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South Africa

  • Bourhill, E. J., Mrs. and Mrs. J.B. Drake. Fairy tales from South Africa ; [with illustrations by W. Herbert Holloway]. London : Macmillan, 1908. (249 p. [8] leaves of plates)
    Butler Stacks: 302.968 B667
  • Canonici, Noverino N. Izinganekwane : an anthology of Zulu folktales. Durban : Zulu Language and Literature, University of Natal, 1993. (115 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR359.2.Z83 C35 1993g
  • Cope, Jack. Tales of the trickster boy : stories of the trickster boy Hlakanyana and his adventures in the great world retold from the original folk-tales ; [with illustrations by Azaria Mbatha]. Cape Town : Tafelberg, 1990. (88 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR358 .C78 1990g
  • Du Preez, Hanneke. Kgalagadi tales : Bushman one ; [translated from the Afrikaans by Hope du Plessis ; illustrated by June Johnson]. Alberton, South Africa : Librarius Felicitas, c1984. (27 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR358.72.K45 D8
  • Godwin, Denise (comp.) Folk tales from the rainbow nation. Pretoria : Van Schaik, 2000. (50 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR350 .F65 2000g
  • Goldstuck, Arthur. Ink in the porridge : urban legends of the South African elections. London : Penguin, 1994. (221 p.)
    Lehman Stacks: GR359 .G65 1994g
  • Grobbelaar, Pieter W. Famous South African folk tales ; [illustrations by Séan Verster]. Cape Town : Human & Rousseau, 2003. (224 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR359 .F36 2003g
  • Guy Butler and Jeff Opland (eds.) The Magic tree: South African stories in verse. Cape Town : Maskew Miller Longman, 1989. (243 p.)
    Butler Stacks: PR9348 .M3 1969g
  • Hewitt, Roger. Structure, meaning & ritual in the narratives of the southern San. Khoisan heritage series. Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2008. (254 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR358.2.B83 H49 2008g
    Butler Stacks (1986 Hamburg ed.): GR358.2.B83 H49 1986
  • Honeij, James Albert. South-African folk-tales. New York : The Baker & Taylor Company, 1910. (151 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR350 .H5 1910g
    E-book --via Black Short Fiction and Folklore
  • Joubert, Elsa. The four friends, and other tales from Africa ; [illustrations by Cora Coetzee]. Cape Town : Tafelberg, 1988, c1987. (80 p.)
    Butler Stacks: PT6592.2.O78 V5413 1988g
  • Lestrade, G.P. (ed.) Some Kgatla animal stories ; [edited with English translation and notes, by G.P. Lestrade]. Communications from the School of African studies, University of Cape Town. [New series no. 11. April, 1944]. [Cape Town : School of African studies, University of Cape Town], 1944. (82 p.)
    Butler Stacks: 302.968 C172 no.11
  • Lestrade, G.P. Some Venda folk-tales ; [edited, with English translation and notes, by G.P. Lestrade]. Communications from the School of African studies, University of Cape Town [New ser. no. 6. October 1942]. [Cape Town] : s. n., 1942. (74 p.)
    Butler Stacks: 302.968 C172 no.6
  • Lewis-Williams, J.D. (ed.) Stories that float from afar : ancestral folklore of the San of southern Africa. Texas A & M University anthropology series ; no. 5. College Station, Tex. : Texas A&M University Press, c2000.
    (285 p.)
    Barnard: GR358.2.B83 S76 2000
  • Liguori-Reynolds, Rosalie. Whispering in the reeds : South African folk tales and legends. Johannesburg : Afrikaanse Pers-Boekhandel, 1964. (108 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR350 .L54
  • Mbanze, Dinah M. The magic pot : three African tales ; [with illustrations by Niki Daly]. Cape Town : Kwela Books, 1999. (48 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR358 .M23 1999g
  • Mutwa, Credo Vusa'mazulu. Indaba, my children. Johannesburg, South Africa : Blue Crane Books, [1964]. (562 p.)
    African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: GR350 .M8 1964g
  • Mutwa, Credo Vusa'mazulu. Indaba, my children. London : Kahn & Averill, 1985, c1965. (354 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR350 .M8 1985
  • Pitcher, Diana. The mischief maker: African tales of Nogwaja the hare ; [illustrated by Sally Dove].
    Cape Town ; Johannesburg : D. Philip ; London : Distributed in the U.K. and Europe by Global Book Resources, 1984. (64 p.)
    Butler Stacks: PZ8.1.P67 M5 1984g
  • Postma, Minnie. In the beginning ; [illustrated by Sylvia Baxter]. Mayor's Walk, [South Africa] : Sanpat, [2004?]. (27 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR359.52.S68 P678 2004g
  • Savory, Phyllis. Zulu fireside tales ; [illustrated by Sylvia Baxter]. Secaucus, N.J. : Carol Pub. Group, 1993.
    (64 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR359.2.Z83 S28 1993
  • Schalkwyk, Aré van & Reuben Matemane [original artwork]. 11 South African folk tales : 11 official languages : a celebration of democracy and cultural diversity. Gardenview, South Africa : Zytek Pub., c2005. (119 p.)
    African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: GR359 .A15 2005g
  • Scheub, Harold. Storytelling songs of Zulu women : recording archetypal rites of passage and mythic paths. Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, c2006. (292 p.)
    African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: GR359.2.Z83 S34 2006
    Barnard & Butler Stacks: GR359.2.Z83 S34 2006
  • Sithole, Sibongile. Beer, songs & quarrels and other stories ; [edited by Andrea Engel & Heather Silove Howe]. Durban : Centre for Adult Education, University of Natal, c1991. (52 p.)
    Offsite: PR9369.3.S476 B4 1991g
  • Theal, George McCall. Kaffir folk-lore : a selection from the traditional tales current among the people living on the eastern border of the Cape Colony, with copious explanatory notes. Westport, Conn. : Negro Universities Press, [1970]. (226 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR360.K2 T3 1970
  • van Niekerk, Annemarié (ed.) Raising the blinds : a century of South African women's stories. Parklands [South Africa] : Donker, 1990. (272 p.)
    Barnard & Butler Stacks: PR9367.33.W65 R3 1990

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Sudan

  • Abdallah, Ali Lutfi. The clever sheikh of the Butana and other stories : Sudanese folk tales. New York : Interlink Books, 1999. (144 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR355.8 .A24 1999
  • al-Shahi, Ahmed & F.C.T. Moore. Wisdom from the Nile : a collection of folk-stories from northern and central Sudan. Oxford library of African literature. Oxford [Eng.] : Clarendon Press, 1978. (256 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR355.8.W57
  • Deng, Francis Mading. Bonds of silk : the human factor in the British administration of the Sudan. African series (East Lansing, Mich.) ; no. 1. East Lansing, Mich. : Michigan State University Press, c1989. (245 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT156.7 .D33 1989
  • Deng, Francis Mading. Dinka folktales : African stories from the Sudan ; [illus. by Martha Reisman]. New York : Africana Pub. Co., [1974]. (204 p.)
    Barnard & Butler Stacks: GR360.D5 D4613
  • Tum, `Abd Allah `Uthman. Proverbs of western and central Sudan. = Amthal Sudaniyah min gharb wa-wasat al-Sudan. Khartoum : Sudanese Studies Center, [2002]. (222 p.)
    Offsite: PN6519.A7 T86 2002

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Tanzania

  • Bacuez, Pascal (comp. & trans.) Les ruses de la malice : contes swahili = hadithi za kiswahili : contes bilingues. Collection "La légende des mondes." Paris : L'Harmattan, c2001. (129 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR356.72.S95 B33 2001
  • Bacuez, Pascal (comp.) Contes swahili de Kilwa = Hadithi za kiswahili kutoka Kilwa : contes bilingues. Collection "La légende des mondes." Paris : L'Harmattan, c2000. (142 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR356.72.S95 C65 2000
  • Bateman, George W. Zanzibar tales told by natives of the east coast of Africa ; [illustrated by Walter Bobbett]. Zanzibar : Gallery Publications, 2001. (154 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR360.Z3 Z3 2001g
  • Kamera, W.D. Tales of Wairaqw of Tanzania. Kampala : East African Literature Bureau, 1976. (103 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR356.72.I73 T34
  • Malya, Simoni (comp.) The beginning of death. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania : Black Star Agencies, [1980]. (48 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR356.7 .B43
  • Mbele, Joseph L. [trans. and commentaries]. Matengo folktales. Haverford, PA : Infinity Publishing.com, 1999. (142 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR356.72.M38 M38 1999g
  • Mwakasaka, Christon S. The oral literature of the Banyakyusa. Nairobi : Kenya Literature Bureau, 1978.
    (169 p.)
    Butler Stacks & African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: GR356.72.N93 M9
  • Seitel, Peter. See so that we may see : performances and interpretations of traditional tales from Tanzania ; [from performances tape-recorded by Sheila Dauer and Peter Seitel]. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1980. (307 p.)
    Barnard & Butler Stacks: GR356.72.H38 S44

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Togo

  • Alou, Kpatcha A.M. Un enfant pas comme les autres : contes du pays Kabyê. Lomé, Togo : Nouvelles Editions africaines du Togo, c1993. (120 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR351.52.K32 A46 1993
  • Cardinall, Allan Wolsey. Tales told in Togoland [to which is added the mythical & traditional history of Dagomba by E.F. Tamakloe]. London : Oxford University Press, H. Milford, 1931. (290 p.)
    E-book
  • Konrad, Zinta. Ewe comic heroes : trickster tales in Togo. Garland reference library of the humanities. Albert Bates Lord studies in oral tradition ; v. 9. New York, NY : Garland Pub., 1994. (294 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR351.52.E83 K65 1994
  • Prilop, Gerhard. Contes et mythes du Togo : (la marmite miraculeuse). Lomé, Togo : Editions Haho, c1985.
    (197 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR351.5 .C663 1985

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Uganda

  • Akello, Grace. Iteso thought patterns in tales. Dar es Salaam, [Tanzania] : Dar es Salaam University Press, c1981. (129 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR356.52.T47 A33 1981g
  • Baskerville, Rosetta. The flame tree, and other folk-lore stories from Uganda. New York : Negro Universities Press, [1969]. (113 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR360.U4 B28 1969
  • Kagwa, Apolo, Sir. The tales of Sir Apolo : Uganda folklore and proverbs. London : Religious Tract Society,
    [192-?]. (94 p.)
    Offsite (Missionary Research Library): Cd1 K118
  • Kibulya, H.M. Folk tales of Bwamba. Kampala : East African Literature Bureau, 1976. (87 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR356.52.B85 K52
  • Serwadda, W. Moses. Songs and stories from Uganda. New York : Crowell, [1974]. (80 p.)
    Offsite: ML3760 .S457

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Togo

  • Konrad, Zinta. Ewe comic heroes : trickster tales in Togo. Garland reference library of the humanities. Albert Bates Lord studies in oral tradition ; v. 9. New York, NY : Garland Pub., 1994. (294 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR351.52.E83 K65 1994

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Zambia

  • Chipopu, Morgan & Sydney Lea. Nomads : tales from Africa. Lusaka : Zambian P.E.N. Center, 2006. (66 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR350 .C56 2006g
  • Davoli, U. The dancing elephant : a collection of tales of the Bemba people. Ndola, Zambia : Mission Press, 1992. (177 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR358.42.B43 D26 1992g
  • Halemba, Andrzej. Mambwe folk-tales : English version. Warsaw : Mamafrica, c2005. (350 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR358.42.M36 H3513 2005g
  • Imenda, Sitwala Namwinji & Lydia Nakutoma Inambao. Dancing mice and other African folktales ; [illustrations by L. Bambo]. Lusaka, Zambia : Printed and published by Mpial Printers Limited, 2004. (49 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR 350 .I4 2004g
  • Imenda, Sitwala Namwinji. Mind over matter. Lusaka, Zambia : Mipal, c2004. (56 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR350 .I44 2004g
  • Lehmann, Dorothea. Folktales from Zambia : texts in six African languages and in English. Marburger Studien zur Afrika- und Asienkunde. Serie A, Afrika ; Bd. 31. Berlin : D. Reimer, 1983. (120 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR358.4 .L44 1983
  • Milimo, J.T. Bantu wisdom. Lusaka : NECZAM, 1972, c1970. (119 p.)
    Offsite: PN6519.A6 M5 1972
  • Okafor, Clement Abiaziem. The banished child : a study in Tonga oral literature. Mistletoe series ; 16.
    London : Folklore Society, 1983. (172 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR358.42.T66 O43 1983
  • Vyas, Chiman L. Folk tales of Zambia. Lusaka : NECZAM, 1974, c1972. (87 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR360.Z275 V9 1974
  • Vyas, Chiman L. Two tales of Zambia. Lusaka : NECZAM, 1973, c1971. (48 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR360.Z275 V93 1973

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Zimbabwe

  • Atkinson, Norman Joseph. The broken promise and other traditional fables from Zimbabwe. Harare, Zimbabwe : Academic Books Zimbabwe, 1989. (88 p.)
    Butler Stacks: PZ8.1.A75 B76 1989g
  • Guruva, Danai. The double marriage payment : some tall tales from the Shona of Zimbabwe. Gweru, Zimbabwe : Mambo Press, 2000. (80 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR358.62.M3 G87 2000g
  • Hodza, A.C. (comp.) & O.C. Chiromo (trans.) & C. Kileff (ed.) Shona folk tales. Gweru, Zimbabwe : Mambo Press, in association with the Literature Bureau, 1987. (151 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR358.62.M3 N4813 1987
  • Hove, Chenjerai. Guardians of the soil : meeting Zimbabwe's elders. Munich : Frederking & Thaler Verlag ; Harare: Baobab Books [distributor], c1996. (127 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT2908 .H68 1996g
  • Mungoshi, Charles. Stories from a Shona childhood; [illustrations by Luke Toronga]. Harare, Zimbabwe : Baobab Books, 1989. (55 p.) [Black short fiction.]
    Butler Stacks: GR358.62.M3 M86 1989g
    E-book --via Black Short Fiction and Folklore
  • Pelling, J.N. Ndebele proverbs and other sayings. Gwelo : Mambo Press, 1977. (133 p.)
    Offsite: PN6519.N38 P44
  • Stockil, C. and M. Dalton. Shangani folk tales: a collection of Shangani folk stories. [Harare?] : Jongwe in association with the Literature Bureau, [198-?]. (2 v.)
    Butler Stacks: GR358.62.S53 S86 1980g
  • Tracey, Hugh. The lion on the path, and other African stories ; [with illustrations by Eric Byrd, and music transcribed by Andrew Tracey]. London : Routledge & K. Paul, 1967. (129 p.)
    Butler Stacks: PZ8.1.T64 Li

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Central Africa

  • Aurélien, frêre (comp.) Fables et légendes du Ruanda-Urundi ; [présentées par D. Pontégnie]. [Astrida : [s.n.] 1959]. (54 p.)
    Offsite: MY79
  • Bernard, Alain. Contes et legendes de l'Afrique des grands lacs ; [pref. de Jean-Pierre Allaux ; illustrés par Nicole Pommaux]. Arudy, France : D'Utovie, c1984. (79 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR350 .B47 1984g
  • Fortier, Joseph (ed.) Dragon et sorcières: contes et moralités du pays Mbaï. Classiques africains ; 14.
    [Paris] : A. Colin, 1974. (365 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR355.52.M32 F67
  • Igot, Yves et Marie-Jeanne. Contes et fables du centre de l'Afrique ; [illustrations de M. Abauzit]. Lire et savoir. Paris : Didier, 1970. (134 p.)
    Offsite: PL8013.F7 I34 1970g
  • Jungraithmayr, H. et J.- P. Caprile (eds.) Cinq textes tchadiques : (Cameroun et Tchad): présentation linguistique. Marburger Studien zur Afrika- und Asienkunde. Serie A, Afrika ; Bd. 12. Berlin : Reimer, 1978.
    (247 p.)
    Offsite: PL8026.C53 C56
  • Knappert, Jan. Bantu myths and other tales. Nisaba ; v. 7. Leiden : Brill, 1977. (181 p.)
    Burke [UTS] LC Stacks: GR350 .B27
  • Madan, A.C. (ed.) Kiunangi, or Story and history from Central Africa ; [written by boys in the schools of the Universities' Mission to Central Africa]. London : G. Bell, 1887. (291 p.)
    Offsite: TM43.69 M178
  • Malonga, Bruno. Kimoko : jeux de société : devinettes, proverbes, contes. Paris : Harmattan ; Corbeil-Essonnes: ICES, 2000. (80 p.)
    Butler Stacks: PN6519.A6 M25 2000g
  • Ndong Ndoutoume, Tsira. Le Mvett : l'homme, la mort et l'immortalité. Paris : L'Harmattan, c1993. (317 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR350.32.F35 N38 1993g
  • Roulon-Doko, Paulette (ed.) Les maniêres d'"être" et les mots pour le dire dans les langues d'Afrique centrale. LINCOM studies in African linguistics ; 31. München : LINCOM Europa, 1998. (160 p.)
    Offsite: PL8018 .M36 1998
  • Scanlon, Paul A. (ed.) Stories from central & southern Africa. African writers series ; 254. London ;
    Exeter N.H. : Heinemann, 1983. (207 p.)
    African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: PL8014.S62 S8 1983
  • Tchicaya U Tam'si. Légendes africaines ; [préf. de Mercer Cook]. [Paris] : Seghers, 1980. (234 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR350 .F43 1980
  • Werner, Alice. Myths & legends of the Bantu ; [with thirty-two illustrations from photographs]. London : G.G. Harrap & Co. [1933]. (334 p.)
    Offsite (Missionary Research Library): Cd1W
    African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler (1968 edition): GR360.B2 W4 1968

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East Africa

  • Kamera, W.D. & C.S. Mwakasaka (eds.) The compliment East African folktales. Arusha [Tanzania] : Eastern Africa Publications, 1981. (172 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR355.6 .C6
  • Kidd, Dudley. The bull of the kraal and the heavenly maidens : a tale of black children. London : A. & C. Black, 1911. (302 p.)
    Offsite (Missionary Research Library): Ta3 K537
  • Kituku, Vincent Muli wa. East African folktales : from the voice of Mukamba. Little Rock, Arkansas : August House, 1997. (93 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR356.42.K36 K55 1997
  • p'Bitek, Okot. Hare and hornbill. African writers series ; 193. London : Heinemann, 1978. (80 p.)
    Butler Stacks & African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: GR350 .P3913
  • Sharma, Veena. Folk tales of East Africa. Folk tales of the world (New Delhi, India) ; 18. New Delhi : Sterling, c1987. (113 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR355.6 .S52 1987g

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Indian Ocean

  • Démons & merveilles : le surnaturel dans l'Océan Indien : actes du colloque international, Université de la Réunion, 26-29 Octobre 2004 ; organisé par Valérie Magdelaine-Andrianjafitrimo, Jean Claude Carpanin Marimoutou et Bernard Terramorsi. [Réunion] : Université de la Réunion, c2005. (473 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR500 .C65 2004
  • Haring, Lee. Stars and keys : folktales and creolization in the Indian Ocean ; [with translations by Claudie Ricaud and Dawood Auleear]. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2007. (413 p.)
    Barnard & Butler Stacks & African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: GR360.I743 H37 2007
  • Haring, Lee. Indian Ocean folktales : Madagascar, Comoros, Mauritius, Réunion, Seychelles. Chennai, India : National Folklore Support Centre, c2002. (146 p.)
    Offsite & South Asian Studies Reading Rm, 601 Butler: GR357 .H378 2002g

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North Africa

  • Decourt, Nadine et Naïma Louali-Raynal (eds.) Contes maghrébins en situation interculturelle ; [préface de Camille Lacoste-Dujardin]. Hommes et sociétés. Paris : Karthala, c1995. (172 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR353 .C65 1995
  • Djenadi, Ali. La montagne noire : conte populaire. Tizi Ouzou : Editions El Amel, 2000. (119 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR353 .D54 2000
  • El-Shamy, Hasan M. Types of the folktale in the Arab world : a demographically oriented tale-type index. Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, 2004. (1255 p.)
    Butler Reference, 301 Butler: R016.398 El76
  • Farès, Nabile. L'ogresse dans la littérature orale berbère : littérature orale et anthropologie. Paris : Karthala, c1994. (134 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR353.2.B43 F37 1994
  • Féraud, Marie. Histoires maghrébines, rue de France. Collection Lettres du Sud. Paris : Editions Karthala, [1985]. (168 p.)
    Offsite: DC801.R836 H58 1985
  • Hurreiz, Sayed Hamid A. Ja'aliyyīn folktales : an interplay of African, Arabian and Islamic elements. Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University, c1977. (180 p.)
    Butler Stacks: PL8003 .A36 v.8
  • Reesink, P. Contes et récits maghrébins. Collection "Création" ; 21. Sherbrooke : Naaman, [1977]. (163 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR353 .R43
  • Régla, Mireille de. Contes el légendes du Maghreb ; [illustrations de René Péron]. Collection des contes et légendes de tous les pays. Paris : F. Nathan, 1968. (256 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR350 .R42
  • S.A.H.Y.K.O.D. Lundja : contes du Maghreb. Paris : Editions L'Harmattan, c1987. (142 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR353 .L86 1987g
  • Scelles-Millie, Jeanne. Contes arabes du Maghreb ; [dessin et lettrines de N. et C. Pasquier-Bronde]. Collection documentaire de folklore ; v. 11. Paris : G.-P. Maisonneuve et Larose, 1970. (333 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR360.N6 S3
  • Scelles-Millie, Jeanne. Paraboles et contes d'Afrique du Nord ; [illustrations de Clotilde et Noël Pasquier-Bronde]. Littératures populaires de toutes les nations ; nouv. sér., t. 31. Paris : G.-P. Maisonneuve et Larose, 1982. (170 p., [8] leaves of plates)
    Butler Stacks: GR353 .S34 1982

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Southern Africa

  • Clements, Frank. This is our land: stories and legends of the two Rhodesias. Salisbury, S. Rhodesia : Baobab Books, 1963. (115 p.)
    Butler Stacks: 968.9 C59
  • Frobenius, Leo. Animal husbands, magic horns and water spirits : folktales from Southern Africa ; edited, revised and annotated by Sabine Dinslage ; [with the assistance of Verena Lebeus.] Studien zur Kulturkunde ; 126. Bd. Köln : Köppe, 2009. (3 v.)
    Butler Stacks: GR358 .F7613 2009g, v.1-3
  • Gray, Stephen (ed.) The Penguin book of southern African stories. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England ;
    New York : Penguin Books, 1985. (328 p.)
    Offsite & Milstein [Butler]: PL8014.S62 P46 1985
  • Jordan, A.C. Tales from southern Africa ; [foreword by Z. Pallo Jordan ; introduction and commentaries by Harold Scheub]. Johannesburg : Ad Donker, 2004. (262 p.)
    African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: PR9369.J3 T3 2004g
  • Knappert, Jan. Myths and legends of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland. Nisaba ; v. 14. Leiden : Brill, 1985.
    (254 p.)
    Burke [UTS] LC Stacks: GR358 .K531 1985
    Butler Stacks: GR358.7 .K5 1985
  • Knappert, Jan. The book of African fables. Studies in Swahili language and literature ; v. 3. Lewiston, NY : Edwin Mellen Press, 2001. (312 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR1580 .K53 2001
  • Partridge, A.C. Folklore of Southern Africa. ELISA series ; v. 2. Cape Town ; New York : Purnell, [1973].
    (129 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR360.S62 P37
  • Savory, Phyllis. Tales from Africa ; [illustrations by Jillian Hulme]. Folkestone : Bailey Bros. & Swinfen, 1968.
    (110 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR360.B2 S23 1968b
  • Scheub, Harold. Story. Madison, WI : University of Wisconsin Press, c1998. (351 p.)
    Barnard & Butler Stacks: GR358 .S34 1998
    E-book
  • Thomas, E.W. Bushman stories. Cape Town ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1950. (75 p.)
    Offsite (Missionary Research Library): Tj T455

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West Africa

  • Ag Erless, Mohamed. "Il n'y a qu'un soleil sur terre" : contes, proverbes et devinettes des Touaregs Kel-Adagh. Travaux et documents de l'I.R.E.M.A.M. ; 20. Aix-en-Provence : Institut de Recherches et d'Études sur le Monde arabe et musulman, 1999. (84 p.)
    Lehman: PJ2381 .A3 1999g
  • Berry, Jack. West African folktales ; [edited and with an introduction by Richard Spears]. Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 1991. (229 p.)
    Milstein [Butler] & Butler Stacks: GR350.3 .W45 1991
  • Calame-Griaule, Geneviêve. Le thême de l'arbre dans les contes africains. Société pour l'étude des langues africaines (Series) ; 16. [Paris : S.E.L.A.F.] 1969. (92 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR785 .C3
  • Colardelle-Diarrassouba, Marcelle. Le lièvre et l'araignée dans les contes de l'Ouest africain ; [préf. de Bernard Dadié]. Paris : Union générale d'éditions, c1975. (308 p.)
    Barnard & Butler Stacks: GR350.3.C64
  • Colin, Roland. Les contes noirs de l'Ouest africain [microform] ; [témoins majeurs d'un humanisme. Préf. de Léopold S. Senghor]. Paris : Présence africaine, [1957]. (206 p.)
    Butler Microforms, 401 Butler: MICROFLMF b9390
  • Courlander, Harold and George Herzog. The cow-tail switch, and other West African stories ; [drawings by Madye Lee Chastain]. New York : H. Holt and Co., [c1947]. (143 p.) (143 p.)
    Rare Book, Butler 6th Fl. East: HISTCHIL Unclassified
  • Cronise, Florence M. and Henry W. Ward. Cunnie Rabbit, Mr. Spider, and the other beef ; West African folk tales ; [illustrations by Gerald Sichel. Foreword by Hermese E. Roberts]. Chicago : Afro-Am Press, 1969.
    (330 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR350 .C7 1969
  • Dadié, Bernard Binlin. Légendes et poèmes. Afrique debout! Légendes africaines. Climbié. La Ronde des jours. Paris : Seghers, 1966. (260 p.)
    Offsite: 897.8 D125
  • Görög, Veronika...[et al.] Histoires d'enfants terribles: (Afrique noire): études et anthologie ; [préf. et conclusion par Geneviève Calame-Griaule]. Littératures populaires de toutes les nations ; nouv. sér., t. 27. Paris : G.P. Maisonneuve et Larose, 1980. (301 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR350 .H47
  • Görög-Karady, Veronika et Christiane Seydou. La fille difficile : un conte-type africain. Paris : CNRS, c2001. (492 p.; + 1 CD-ROM)
    Butler Stacks & African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: GR350 .F55 2001, with CD-ROM
  • Görög-Karady, Veronika. Le mariage dans les contes africains: études et anthologie. Hommes et sociétés. Paris : Karthala, c1994. (225 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR350 .M29 1994
  • Mariko, Kélétigui Abdourahmane. Le monde mystérieux des chasseurs traditionnels. Paris : Agence de coopération culturelle et technique ; Dakar, Sénégal : Nouvelles éditions africaines, [1981]. (200 p.)
    Lehman & African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: GN652.5 .M37 1981
  • Meyer, Gérard. Paroles du soir : contes toucouleurs: Sénégal, Mauritanie, Mali, Guinée. La légende des mondes. Paris : L'Harmattan, c1988. (222 p.)
    Butler Stacks & African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: GR350.32.T68 P37 1988
  • Nassau, Robert Hamill. Where animals talk : West African folk lore tales. Boston : Richard G. Badger, The Gorham Press, 1912. (250 p.)
    Offsite (Missionary Research Library): Ta3 N187
    Butler Stacks: 809.866 N187
    E-book --via Black Short Fiction and Folklore
  • Offodile, Buchi. The orphan girl and other stories. West African folktales. New York : Interlink Books, 2001. (260 p.)
    Barnard & Butler Stacks: GR350.3 .O33 2001
  • Rosenmayr, Leopold. Le baobab: histoires vécues d'Afrique ; [dessins de Josef Pillhofer ; traduit de l'allemand par Jean-Jacques Briu]. Collection Encres noires ; 177. Paris : Harmattan, 1998. (226 p.)
    Butler Stacks: DT528 .R714 1998g
  • Ugorji, Okechukwu K. From the belly of the gods. Princeton, N.J. : Sungai, 1993, c1992. (93 p.)
    Butler Stacks: PR9387.9.U367 F76 1993g
  • Vernon-Jackson, Hugh, (comp.) More West African folk tales ; [illustrated by P. F. Wright]. London : University of London Press [1963].
    Butler Stacks: 809.866 V5981, v.1

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Africa (General)

  • Abrahams, Roger D. (ed.) African folktales : traditional stories of the Black world. New York : Pantheon Books, c1983. (354 p.)
    Barnard Stacks & Offsite: GR350 .A348 1983
    African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: GR350 .A348 1983
  • African Proverbs, Sayings, and Stories Afriprov.org (Rev. Joseph G. Healey, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania ; Joseph Kariuki, Urban Ministries Support Group, Nairobi, Kenya)
  • Beier, Ulli, (ed.) The origin of life and death : African creation myths. African writers series ; 23. London ; Ibadan [etc.] : Heinemann, 1966. (65 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR355 .B4
  • Cobble, Alice D. Wembi, the singer of stories ; [illustrated by Doris Hallas]. St. Louis : Bethany Press, [1959].
    (128 p.)
    Burke [UTS] Union Stacks: TM43.69 C65
    E-book --via Black Short Fiction and Folklore
  • Dadié, Bernard Binlin. The black cloth : a collection of African folktales ; [foreword by Es'kia Mphahlele; translated by Karen C. Hatch]. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 1987. (140 p.)
    Butler Stacks: PQ3989.D28 P313 1987
  • Elliot, Geraldine. Where the leopard passes : a book of African folk tales ; [illustrated by Sheila Hawkins]. London : Routledge & K. Paul, 1949 (1963 printing). (133 p.). Butler Stacks: 809.86 EL57
  • Evans, Frank, Mrs. Some legendary landmarks of Africa. London : Cassell, 1893. (118 p.)
    Offsite: 825Ev1 M
  • Goustine, Giselle de. Contes sous la Croix du Sud ; [préface de Robert Delavignette]. Littératures populaires de toutes les nations. Nouvelle série ; t. 13. Paris : G. P. Maisonneuve et Larose, 1967. (208 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR350 .G67
  • Greaves, Nick. When elephant was king and other elephant tales from Africa ; [illustrated by Julie Bruton]. Halfway House, South Africa : Southern Book Publishers, 1996. (144 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR350 .G74 1996g
  • Harris, Rodney E., Norman R. Shapiro & Micheline Fort Harris (eds.) Palabres : contes et poêmes de l'Afrique noire et des Antilles. Glenview, Ill. : Scott, Foresman, [1973]. (287 p.)
    Butler Stacks: PQ3986 .H3
  • Ingram, J. Forsyth. The story of a golden concession: and other African tales and legends. Pietermaritzburg : W.H. Griffin, 1893. (242 p.)
    Offsite: 809.86 In4
  • Kamanda, Kama. Les contes du griot ; [préface de L.S. Senghor]. 3 v. Paris : Présence africaine, c1988-
    Butler Stacks: GR357.8 .K36 1988, t.1-3
  • MacStiofain, Sean. Chirupula's tale : a bye-way in African history ; (by J.E. Stephenson). London : Geoffrey Bles, 1937. (281 p.)
    Butler Stacks: 967.5 St44
  • Pitcher, Diana. Catch me a river : African myths and legends. Cape Town : Tafelberg Publishers, 1990. (63 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR350 .P58 1990g
  • Savory, Phyllis. The best of African folklore ; [illustrated by Gina Daniel]. Cape Town : Struik Timmins, 1991.
    (111 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR350 .S27 1991g
  • Schmidt, Sigrid. Children born from eggs : African magic tales : texts and discussions. Afrika erzählt ; Bd. 9. Köln : Köppe, c2007. (526 p.)
    Offsite: GR358.82.N32 S36 2007g
  • Whiteley, Wilfred Howell (comp.) A selection of African prose. Oxford library of African literature. Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1964.
    Barnard: PL8013.E5 W4 (v.1-2)
    Offsite: 897.8 W588 (v.2)

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Diaspora

  • Abrahams, Roger D. (ed.) African American folktales : stories from Black traditions in the New World.
    New York : Pantheon Books, c1999. (327 p.)
    Barnard & Butler Stacks: GR111.A47 A38 1999
  • Allsopp, Richard. A book of Afric Caribbean proverbs. Kingston, Jamaica : Arawak publications, 2004. (244 p.)
    Butler Stacks: PN6519.C3 A55 2004g
  • Bascom, William Russell. African folktales in the New World. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1992.
    (243 p.)
    Barnard & Butler Stacks: GR111.A47 B37 1992
    African Studies Reading Rm, 607 Butler: GR111.A47 B37 1992
  • Hurston, Zora Neale. Mules and men ; [preface by Franz Boas ; with a new foreword by Arnold Rampersad ; illustrations by Miguel Covarrubias]. New York : Perennial Library, 1990. (309 p.)
    Barnard & Milstein Stacks: GR103 .H8 1990
    Butler Stacks: GR111.A47 H86 1990
  • Prahlad, Anand. African-American proverbs in context. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c1996.
    (292 p.)
    Barnard & Butler Stacks: PN6426 .P73 1996
    E-book
  • Relouzat, Raymond. Tradition orale et imaginaire créole. Martinique : Ibis rouge éditions, 1998. (228 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR120 .R467 1998g
  • Tanna, Laura. Jamaican folk tales and oral histories. Kingston : Institute of Jamaica Publications, c1984.
    (143 p.)
    Butler Stacks: GR121.J25 J35 1984g

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Compiled by Anschaire Aveved, Doctoral Candidate in Anthropology,
and Dr. Yuusuf S. Caruso, African Studies Librarian, June 2010.