Children's Folk Tales from Zimbabwe
Author | : Thelma Grace Sithole |
Publisher | : Trafford Publishing |
Total Pages | : 43 |
Release | : 2012-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1466922036 |
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Author | : Thelma Grace Sithole |
Publisher | : Trafford Publishing |
Total Pages | : 43 |
Release | : 2012-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1466922036 |
Author | : V. T. Kandimba |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 58 |
Release | : 2009-07-07 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1465322388 |
While he was growing up, Tsuro, the bunny rabbit, learned the hard way to treat others as he wanted to be treated by them. Being street smart is good, but its not always the best way to live with others. As children, we must never look down on people. We can learn something from our friends no matter how different they are. Amazingly, Kamba, the turtle proved that slow is the new fast. I, Victoria Taurai Kandimba, a mother of four, born and raised in rural Zimbabwe am a natural storyteller. I was inspired by my grandparents who were great folk storytellers as I grew up. I moved to the USA in 2000. In the warm evenings, in a dimly lit hut, after dinner, my two grandmothers, Mandisiya and Taurai, would entertain the family with these folk stories while we shelled peanuts. Everyone took part in discussions to discipline or praise characters in these tales and we thoroughly enjoyed it. They were parables that taught children to grow into good responsible people.
Author | : Vt Kandimba |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781441542809 |
While he was growing up, Tsuro, the bunny rabbit, learned the hard way to treat others as he wanted to be treated by them. Being street smart is good, but it's not always the best way to live with others. As children, we must never look down on people. We can learn something from our friends no matter how different they are. Amazingly, Kamba, the turtle proved that slow is the new fast. I, Victoria Taurai Kandimba, a mother of four, born and raised in rural Zimbabwe am a natural storyteller. I was inspired by my grandparents who were great folk storytellers as I grew up. I moved to the USA in 2000. In the warm evenings, in a dimly lit hut, after dinner, my two grandmothers, Mandisiya and Taurai, would entertain the family with these folk stories while we shelled peanuts. Everyone took part in discussions to discipline or praise characters in these tales and we thoroughly enjoyed it. They were parables that taught children to grow into good responsible people.
Author | : Chisiya |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 55 |
Release | : 2012-04-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1469171767 |
The book contains African folktales, quizzes and proverbs as traditionally told (by the Ndau people), typically by a grandmother, to children in the evenings. These folktales are passed through this oral tradition from generation to generation and form a critical cultural upbringing that shapes the morals, value systems and way of life of the African societies. The stories told to children from an early age each has a moral teaching or is built around some ancient African ‘words of wisdom’. Whilst Chisiya was studying in England (1979 to 1985), and also starting a family he wrote the folktales initially for his children, but the stories got popular with friends, culminating in the Sheffield Education department (through Chris Searle – their multi-cultural adviser) asking Chisiya to tell some of his grandmothers’ folktales to schools in 1985. Chisiya was hosted by Ellesmere and Pye Bank First schools in Sheffield, where the children would make illustrations about the stories. Now these original children’s drawings have been used in this book. Afrikan Lullaby was first published in 1986 by Karia Press; and this is now its second publication.
Author | : Chisiya |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Alexander McCall Smith |
Publisher | : Crocodile Books |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781566563147 |
The 27 stories collected from the Ndebele people of Zimbabwe demonstrate the wealth and variety of traditional African folk tales.
Author | : Geo. Mc Call Theal |
Publisher | : Library of Alexandria |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1465517359 |
Of late years a great deal of interest has been taken in the folklore of uncivilized tribes by those who have made it their business to study mankind. It has been found that a knowledge of the traditionary tales of a people is a key to their ideas and a standard of their powers of thought. These stories display their imaginative faculties; they are guides to the nature of the religious belief, of the form of government, of the marriage customs, in short, of much that relates to both the inner and the outer life of those by whom they are told. These tales also show the relationship between tribes and peoples of different countries and even of different languages. They are evidences that the same ideas are common to every branch of the human family at the same stage of progress. On this account, it is now generally recognised that in order to obtain correct information concerning an uncivilized race, a knowledge of their folklore is necessary. Without this a survey is no more complete than, for instance, a description of the English people would be if no notice of English literature were taken. It is with a view of letting the people we have chosen to call Kaffirs describe themselves in their own words, that these stories have been collected and printed. They form only a small portion of the folklore that is extant among them, but it is believed that they have been so selected as to leave no distinguishing feature unrepresented. Though these traditionary tales are very generally known, there are of course some persons who can relate them much better than others. The best narrators are almost invariably ancient dames, and the time chosen for story telling is always the evening. This is perhaps not so much on account of the evening being the most convenient time, as because such tales as these have most effect when told to an assemblage gathered round a fire circle, when night has spread her mantle over the earth, and when the belief in the supernatural is stronger than it is by day. Hence it may easily happen that persons may mix much with Kaffirs without even suspecting that they have in their possession a rich fund of legendary lore.
Author | : Victoria Taurai Kandimba |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781441542816 |
While he was growing up, Tsuro, the bunny rabbit, learned the hard way to treat others as he wanted to be treated by them. Being street smart is good, but it's not always the best way to live with others. As children, we must never look down on people. We can learn something from our friends no matter how different they are. Amazingly, Kamba, the turtle proved that slow is the new fast. I, Victoria Taurai Kandimba, a mother of four, born and raised in rural Zimbabwe am a natural storyteller. I was inspired by my grandparents who were great folk storytellers as I grew up. I moved to the USA in 2000. In the warm evenings, in a dimly lit hut, after dinner, my two grandmothers, Mandisiya and Taurai, would entertain the family with these folk stories while we shelled peanuts. Everyone took part in discussions to discipline or praise characters in these tales and we thoroughly enjoyed it. They were parables that taught children to grow into good responsible people.
Author | : Nelson Mandela |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Folk tales of the world |
ISBN | : 0393052125 |
Mandela, the Nobel Laureate for Peace, has selected 32 African stories for this extraordinary new book, an anthology that presents Africa's oldest folk tales to the children of the world. Full color.
Author | : Lucy Pollard-Gott, PhD |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 499 |
Release | : 2010-01-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1440154406 |
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