Africa
Folk tales and stories from African traditions.
African Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
How Mushrooms First Grew
How Mushrooms First Grew — a tale of brothers, trickery, and transformation. Two brothers with bad habits deceived their community, changing the land.
African Folk Tales
Ages 9-12
How Beasts And Serpents First Came Into The World
How Beasts And Serpents First Came Into The World: The famine had lasted nearly three years. Kweku Tsin, being very hungry, looked daily in the forest in the
African Folk Tales
All Ages
Farmer Mybrow And The Fairies
Farmer Mybrow And The Fairies — a tale of justice and vindication. Farmer Mybrow faces cruel accusations, but justice arrives through supernatural intervention.
African Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
Honourable Minū
Honourable Minū: It happened one day that a poor Akim-man had to travel from his own little village to Accra - one of the big towns on the coast. This man
African Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
Anansi And Nothing
Anansi And Nothing: Near Anansi’s miserable little hut there was a fine palace where lived a very rich man called Nothing. Nothing and Anansi proposed, one
African Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
Anansi The Blind Fisherman
Anansi the Blind Fisherman: A Tale of Cleverness and Justice In a village near a great river in Africa, there lived a spider named Anansi. Unlike...
African Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
Adzanumee And Her Mother
Adzanumee And Her Mother. A girl chooses between magic and memories. Learn why love and memories are worth more than anything else in the world.
Aesop's Fables
Ages 3-5
How Did Stories Begin – A Zulu Folktale
How Did Stories Begin – A Zulu Folktale: Zulus live in Africa. Like you, the children who live there also like to listen to stories. But what would happen if