Online Sources for African Animal Tales

The following is a list of the sources; click on the item to go to the online version. (All but one of the items is available online.)

Barker, W. H. and Cecilia Sinclair. West African Folk-tales. 1917.

Basden, George T. Among the Ibos of Nigeria. 1921.

Basset, Rene. Moorish Literature. 1901.

Beech, Mervyn W. H. The Suk: Their Language and Folk-lore. 1911.

Bleek, Willem H. I. Reynard the Fox in South Africa, or: Hottentot Fables and Tales. 1864.

Boas, Franz and C. Kamba Simango. "Tales and Proverbs of the Vandau of Portuguese South Africa," Journal of American Folklore. 1922.

Camphor, Alexander P. Missionary Story Sketches. Folk-Lore from Africa. 1909.

Casalis, Eugene. The Basutos, Or, Twenty-Three Years in South Africa. 1861.

Casati, Gaetano. Ten Years in Equatoria. 1891.

Chatelain, Heli. Folk-tales of Angola. 1894.

Cobham, Henry. "Animal Stories from Calabar," Journal of the Royal African Society. 1905.

Cole, H. "Notes on the Wagogo of German East Africa," Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1902.

Cronise, Florence M. and Henry W. Ward. Cunnie Rabbit, Mr. Spider and the Other Beef. West African Folk Tales. 1903.

Dayrell, Elphinstone. Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria, West Africa. 1910.

Dennett, R. E. Notes on the Folk-lore of the Fjort. 1898.

Dewar, Emmeline H. Chinamwanga Stories. 1900.

Ellis, A. B. The Ewe-Speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa. 1890.

Ellis, A. B. The Yoruba-Speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa. 1894.

Ganly, John C. Kaonde Proverbs. 1987. (76, 145, 155) [not available online] 

Green, Feridah Kirby. "Folklore from Tangier," Folklore. 1908.

Hollis, A C. The Masai, Their Language and Folk-lore. 1905.

Hollis, A. C. The Nandi, Their Language and Folk-Lore. 1909.

Honey, James A. South African Folk-tales. 1910.

Johnston, Harry. George Grenfell and the Congo. 1908.

Johnston, Harry. The Uganda Protectorate. 1904.

Junod, Henri A. The Life of a South African Tribe. 1912.

Kirk, J .W. C. "Specimens of Somali Tales," Folklore. 1904.

Krug, Adolph N. "Bulu Tales from Kamerun, West Africa," Journal of American Folklore, 1912.

Macdonald, Duff. Africana. 1882.

Macdonald, James. "Bantu Customs and Legends," Folklore, 1892.

Madan, A C. Kiungani or Story and History from Central Africa. 1887. 

Madan, A. C. Lala-Lamba Handbook. 1908.

Maxwell, J. "Calabar Stories," Journal of the Royal African Society. 1906.

Moore, Decima and F. G. Guggisberg. We Two in West Africa. 1909.

Nassau, Robert H. Where Animals Talk. 1914.

Rattray, R. S. Ashanti Proverbs. 1916.

Rattray, R. S. Some Folk-Lore Stories and Songs in Chinyanja. 1907.

Roscoe, John. The Baganda, an Account of Their Native Customs and Beliefs. 1911.

Schoen, Jacob F. Magana Hausa, to Which Is Added a Translation in English. 1885.

Steere, Edward. Swahili Tales. 1889.

Swahili Stories from Arab Sources. 1886.

Talbot, Percy A. In the Shadow of the Bush. 1912.

Thomas, Northcote W. Anthropological Report on the Edo-Speaking Peoples of Nigeria. 1910.

Tremearne, A. J. N. "Fifty Hausa Folk-Tales," Folklore. 1910.

Werner, Alice. The Natives of British Central Africa. 1906.

Westermann, Gerd E. G. The Shilluk People: Their Language and Folklore. 1912.