African Folk & Fairy Tales: Fables, Folklore & Ancient Stories

Flame Tree Collector's Editions Mythology

by Jake Jackson (Editor), Lérè Adéyẹmí (Introduction)

Delightful and ingenious stories from throughout the continent of Africa.

A Gorgeous Collector's Edition of folk and fairy tales from the continent of Africa, with stories from regions now marked as modern nations such as Libya, Algeria, Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda, who inherit the folk and mythic tales of ancient peoples. Here you'll find stories of ogres and tricksters, riddles and poems, and great heroes of history such as Liongo. This new collection is created for the modern reader.

Flame Tree Collector's Editions present the foundations of speculative fiction, authors, myths and tales without which the imaginative literature of the twentieth century would not exist, bringing the best, most influential and most fascinating works into a striking and collectable library. Each book features a new introduction and a Glossary of Terms.

Genres: Mythology, Nonfiction

416 pages, Hardcover

Published November 22, 2022

About the author

SF and dark fantasy author but also a writer/creator of practical music books - Beginner's Guide to Reading Music, Guitar Chords, Piano Chords, Songwriter’s Rhyming Dictionary and How to Play Guitar. Other publications include Advanced Guitar Chords, Advanced Piano Chords, Chords for Kids, How to Play the Electric Guitar, Piano & Keyboard Chords, Scales and Modes and Play Flamenco. Also editor of Mythology books 

Released EP Jakesongs on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, LastFM, etc and on CDBaby. Lifelong passion for fantastic worlds of any kind, from movies to fiction, art to music, posters, album and paperback book covers.

Jake Jackson is the artist name for Nick Wells, Publisher of Flame Tree Press / Flame Tree Publishing.

Reviews

[Leanne Batten · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is a very full text in a small package. I am excited to dive into fictional titles based in the the mythology and stories from Africa-and there are many out there!

This has about 100 short tales and a list for further reading. All of the stories note specifically the people groups of origin and are curated into sections.

I’d say this is a great overview/starter. Also a pretty little book for the shelf.

The book contains a glossary that isn’t tailored to this title. Often I couldn’t find an entry for a word in the text in this glossary but it could be me.

I have one other book in this collection and cannot help but notice how this title is trying to cover a large space of the world compared to smaller, Western countries in other books. This is a great start, but as readers we are the ones to vouch for more stories/academic research in this area.

[Melanie · Rating 2 out of 5]

Really wanted to like this but just so poorly put together and edited that reading felt like a slog.

[Sandra Lindqvist · Rating 3 out of 5]

The lack of star rating is not due to not liking this book!
I just dont like rating these types of collections when they cover topics I´m unfamiliar with. :)

[Sarah Gail · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is the most poorly edited book I’ve ever read. A couple stories were hard to comprehend due to the lack of editing.