The Orphan Girl and Other Stories: West African Folk Tales (International Folk Tale Series) - Softcover

Offodile, Buchi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1566563755 ISBN 13: 9781566563758

Publisher: Interlink Books, 2001

Synopsis

A Kent State professor culls forty-one tales from a lifetime of listening, reading, and researching into a collection with several stories to represent each country of West Africa, including Niger, Mali, Mauritania, and Cameroon. Original.

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From the Back Cover:

To compile these tales, Kent State professor and storyteller Buchi Offodile both drew from his own childhood experiences growing up in West Africa and searched villages for elders who remembered the old stories. These forty-one tales are culled from a lifetime of listening, reading, and researching. The Orphan Girl includes a fascinating introduction exploring the roots of the storytelling tradition in the history and culture of West Africa. History?s boundaries divide this book by nation, from Mauritania into the continent?s interior, to the hinterlands of Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger, and down the Atlantic coast as far as Cameroon. Each country is represented by several stories, a map and brief information.

About the Author:

To compile these tales, Kent State professor and storyteller Buchi Offodile both drew from his own childhood experiences growing up in West Africa and searched villages for elders who remembered the old stories. These forty-one tales are culled from a lifetime of listening, reading, and researching.

About this edition

• Publisher: Interlink Books
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1566563755
• ISBN 13: 9781566563758
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256