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ALIKANZE
Folktale in the West African Igbo setting are very interesting, exciting, mythical and magical. Children love it. Children love to listen to story-telling from family members or anyone who cares to tell or read them stories. Most Igbo folktales have songs. The Alikanze folklore is sung. It is one of the fast-disappearing oral traditions among the Igbo people of Nigeria. It is important to hand these tales down to the younger generation of children all over the world who love to listen to folklore and fairytales.
Igbo Oral Literature
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Tales of Land of Death: Igbo Folktales
Forty Igbo tales traditionally used in that society to educate the younger generations to man's weaknesses and pretensions.
Folktales from Igboland
This volume of twenty folktales belongs to what may be referred to as "volumes of Igbo folktales in other languages by native or foreign speakers of the language." It is destined to all Igbo people in diaspora, those who were born and bred outside Igboland, especially those who are domiciled in the United Kingdom, in other European countries, and in the United States of America. It is also written for non-Igbo speaking people who are interested in the cultural and the oral heritage of the Igbo. The book will certainly help those who have never been to Igboland to acquire a better and clearer understanding of the Igbo. It will equally serve as a handy reference pack to help storytellers enliv...
Ethnosensitive Dimensions of African Oral Literature
Ethnosensitive Dimensions of African Oral Literature: Igbo Perspectives is a collection of nineteen essays spanning all genres of African Oral literature, from the poetic genre to the rhetorical genre. Part One of the book is introductory, and includes three essays that are of a general kind, touching all aspects of the genres, while Part Two includes six essays concerned with the poetic genre. Part Three, made up of two essays and concern the prose genre while Part Four, of two essays, examines the drama genre. Part Five, made up of three essays, addresses the rhetorical genre, and Part Six has three essays that cut across all the genres. The contributions examine the implications of ethnocentric imperatives of oral literature in relation to nationalistic demands.
Tortoise and Elephant
This Igbo story book is targeted at Igbo parents who want to introduce their children to Igbo language. Parents can read this book to their children as a bed time story, until the children are old enough to read it themselves. English translation is included on each page. The story is about a tortoise, an elephant and a princess.
Anukili Na Ugama
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The Flying Tortoise
Mbeku the tortoise is proud of his magnificent, shiny shell - maybe too proud. Because he is so handsome, the greedy tortoise feels he can demand the biggest share of everything. When the birds are invited to a feast in Skyland, Mbeku is determined to go with them. The tortoise even convinces the birds to help him and soon he had magnificent wings of his own. When Mbeku repays the birds with treachery, he learns he is not the only one who can play tricks. With his spirited retelling of a traditional take from the Igbo people of Nigeria, Tololwa M. Mollel brings the crafty tortoise's schemes to a satisfying and lighthearted comeuppance.
