FOLKTALES OF AFRICA
People living in African countries love to tell ,African Folktales.
Many African foltales have animal characters who often appear in more than one story.
A character in a story is a person or animal in the story.
Stories usually have more than 1 character.One of these animal characters is tricky spider.
Would you like to read about this spider?
Then click on : ANANSI THE SPIDER
There are many other animal characters in African Folktales.
Africa has many animals.
There are lions, leopards, elephants, giraffes, zebra and many others.
That is why there are so many animals in the folktales of Africa.PEOPLE TELL STORIES ABOUT THE THiNGS AROUND THEM.
There are also people in some African Folktales.
There are many countries in Africa.
Each country in Africa has its own folktales.
For example
The Ashanti people of Ghana have special folktales which
could be different from some Yoruba folktales told in Nigeria.*
I HAD A WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE.
I WOULD LIKE TO TELL YOU ABOUT IT.
In l972 I visited East Africa.
When my husband and I were in Uganda, a country in East Africa,
we visited the animal free land which is also called an "animal reserve."The animal reserve that we visited is now called Ruenzori National
Park.Our driver, James, drove us around to see the animals
We were looking at an elephant, when James told us a wonderful
story about a lion and several other animals. James said that people
in Uganda love this story.I decided to write the story down, using my own ideas.
The story you will read is Suzie-Jean's version of this old tale.I thought that I would put the words for the animals in Swahili.
Swahili is an East African language.
IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE THIS STORY, CLICK ON
THE WORD Swahili.*
