Sa’ba, 136, 166
Sabi (Borgu) 319
Sabi river 241
Sabizeze 183–5
Sagbata 39, 321–3
Sahara xxiii–v, 49, 11–20, 133,
284, 365, 370–71, 382, 436, 446
Sahel xvi, xix, xxii, xxv, xxvii, 3, 49, 162, 347
Sakhbu 127
Salakan 424
Salum 430–31, – river 422
Samake Demba 426–7
Samba Sarr 431
Samory Toure 392
San xvi, 3–17, 51, 237, 248, *458
Sanen 34–5, 40, *459
Sangare 438
Sangwa Mwaku Kambamba 254
Sankaran 417–18, 428
Sanumu 424
Sara 348–56, *483
Sarbo 145–7
Sargane 375
Sassanian 318
Sasuma Berete 402–3, 405
Sausau 209–10, 212–214
Sayf 360–61
Sayfawa 360–62
Segou xvi, 333, 370, 392, 394, 413, 416–18, 421, 436, *487–8
Sekoro 418–21
Selman Nar 372
Sema 427
Senegal (Republic) xxv, 53, 104, 428, 433, 436, 439
Senegal river xii, 370, 385, 422, 428, 433, 436, 439, 441
Senegambia 422–3, *488–9
Serer, Sereer 422, 425, 428–32, *489
Seth 120–23
Setilu 317
Shaha 163
Shaka 237, 244
Shamawruchi 383
Shangalla 145
Shango 309
Sheba (see also Sa’ba) 136–8, 166
Sheghu 333
Shila 228
Shilluk 142, 150, 152–3, *466
Shiraz 166
Shona 238, 239–43, *472
Shyam Ngong 217–18
Shyerezo 183
Siata Bere 388
Sidibe 438
Simbumba Tangnagati 393–4
Sine river 422
Sira Badiane 430–32
Sirankomi 42–7, *460
Sirius 341
Sisabga 336–7
Sisibe 422, 444
Siture 386
Slave Coast 284, 303
Slave xiii, xxv, 26, 32, 88, 104, 111, 139, 150, 164, 176, 212, 214–15, 227, 230–31, 233, 284, 287, 290–91, 302–4, 306, 308, 310, 313, 320, 347–8, 359, 365, 371, 375, 380, 382–4, 386, 413, 424, 437, 441–2, 446–7, 454–5
– raiding (or -taking) 88, 150, 347–8, 359, 413, 446
– trade xiii, xxv, 176, 215, 304, 308, 320
Snefru 125–6
Sô (see Sow)
Sofala 162
Sogbo 321–3
Sogolon (Kuduma) Conde 402–5, 407–9
Sogolon Kulunkan 407–8, 410–11
Sokoto 53, 282, 318, 365, 436
Solomon 136–9
Somalia 49, 142–3
Sombo 374
Sombonkana 374
Somono 409
Songhay xxiii–iv, 5, 21–33, 318, 359, 370, 371–81, 382, 385, 392, 413, 454, *459, *485
Soninke 370, 385–91, 392, 413, 439, 441, *486
Sonni Ali 454
Sonni dynasty 371–2
Sonyma 441
Sorko 3, 5, 21–33, 371, 413, *459
Sossos 405, 410
Sou 348–53
South Africa 6, 49, 51, 237, 244
South Arabia 136, 145, 166
Sow 348, 353–6, 359, 361–2, *483
Sowan 430
Sudan (Arabic: Land of Blacks) xxii–iii, 347, 370, 372
Sudan (Republic) xxiii, 49, 88, 150, 153, 347
Sudd 142
Sumanguru (Sumaworo) 405–12, 423
Sunjata xi, xvi, xxi, 21, 389–90, 392, 394, 397–412, 423–4, 428–9, 439
Sunsun 406
Sunta Mori 383–4
Sunu Sako 418 ff.
Surakata 393
Sutung 426
Swahili 142, 162–7, *467–8
Swazi 237, 244–7, *472–3
Swaziland 244
Tabon 397
Takamata 447
Tako 427
Tal (see Umar Tal)
Tamanrasset 447
Tana 162
Tanzania xxvi, 59, 69
Tariasu 111–12
Tarikb es-Sudan xx, xxvii, 372, 382
Taylalt 447
Te Agbanli 324–5
Tedo 324
Tekrour 422, 436
Tembo 181
Tembuzi 169
Tengela 439
Tenkodogo 339
Teri 354
Tewan 429–30
Thornton, John xix
Thoth 121, 127
Tikar 282
Tilomboti 375
Timbuktu xx, 332, 338, 370–71, 382, 392
Tindana 336–7
Tin Hinane 447
Tira Magan Traore 412, 423–4, 428
Togo 326, 332
Tohajiye 334–5
Tokyo 4
Tondibi 371
Trade xxv, 119, 290, 326, 333, 347, 365, 371, 413, 423, 433, 446
Traore 401
trickster xvi–ii, xxii, 74–116, *463–4
Tripoli 347, 365
Trobriand xviii
Tsoede 290–91, *476–7
Tsui-Goab 252
Tuareg xxiii, 347, 374–5, 381, 446–56, *491
Tubu 359
Tukolor 413, 422, 431, 433, 436
Tumu Maniya 405, 407
Ture dynasty (Songhay) 454
Ture (Zande trickster) xvii, 88–96, *463
Tutsi, Wa-Tutsi 182 ff.
Twa 182, 186, 195
Twale, Kakama (King) 172
Tyamaba 53–5, *461
Ubukara 184–6
Uganda 142, 153, 169
Umar Jara 333
Umar Tal, al–Hajj 391, 413, 436
Umubara 183
Umwega 184
Ungwad 151
Uraga 139–40
Urisib 251–2
Usswi 66
Uthlakanyana 75–81, *463
Uthman dan Fodio 365
Vaal river 237
Vansina, Jan 215
Venin 298–301
Victoria Nyanza (Lake) 66, 142, 159, 168, 170, 176
Vodun 38
Volta River, White or Black 332
Vungu 258
Waalo 422, 435
Wagadu 370, 385–9,
Wagane Sakho 388–9
Walumbe 178–79
Wamara 66–68, 169, *462
Wan-at-Lei 157
Wanyana 180
Waqa 144
Wassulu 53, 438
Watutsi 50
Webaoner 123–5
Weli 158
Wene (see Ntinu Wene)
West Indies 325
Whydah 320
Winyi 180
Wobega 335
Wolof 422, 428, 433–5, *489
Wono 383
Woot 216–17, *470
Woru 319
Wukari 292, 296
Wulbari 111–16
Wun 298–301
Xhosa 237–8, 244–7, *472–3
Yacouba 55
Yagbum 333
Ya Juma 363
Yaka 253–6, *473–4
yam xii, xxiv, 69, 86, 88–9, 109, 111, 294, 287, 290, 307
Yampunungu 214
Yemen xvi, 136, 357, 359–60, 372
Yendembe 199–201
Yende 111–13, 337
Yennenga 338–9
Yoruba xvi, xxi–ii, xxiv, 38, 97, 100, 284, 303–5, 308–17, 318, 320, 378, *463–4, *478–9
Za Alyaman 372
Zabarkane 373–4, 378,
Zaire 18, 196
Zambia 219, 223, 233
Zambeze river 225
Zande 88 ff., *463
Zanfara 376
Zanzibar 162
Zaria 365
Zarma 373–81
Za Yasiboi 372
Zazzau 365
Zimbabwe
237–9, *472
Zoumbrana 339
Zulu 75, 237–8, 244–7, 463, 472–3
Zwa 378–81
Table of Contents
Cover
About the Author
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Introduction
A Note on the Text
List of Maps
African Myths of Origin
PART I: SOME GENERAL THEMES
STORIES ABOUT HUNTERS
1: THE SAN PEOPLES OF SOUTHERN AFRICA
2: PYGMIES OF THE CENTRAL AFRICAN FORESTS
3: THE SONGHAY HUNTERS OF THE NIGER RIVER
4: THE ORIGIN OF HUNTERS’ ASSOCIATIONS: SANEN AND KONTRON OF THE MANDEN
5: HOW HUNTERS LEARNED ABOUT MAGIC
6: THE ANIMAL BRIDE I: THE CHANGED SKIN
7: THE ANIMAL BRIDE II: SIRANKOMI
THE CATTLE-HERDERS
8: KHOI-KHOI CATTLE STORIES
9: FULBE STORIES OF CATTLE
10: THE MAASAI OF EAST AFRICA
11: THE GREAT LAKES I: THE ORIGIN OF CATTLE (RWANDA)
12: THE GREAT LAKES II: THE STORY OF WAMARA (BAHAYA)
13: THE CHAGGA OF EAST AFRICA: MURILE
TRICKSTERS
14: UTHLAKANYANA, THE ZULU CHILD TRICKSTER
15: STORIES OF MONI-MAMBU OF THE BAKONGO
16: TURE, THE ZANDE TRICKSTER
17: ESHU OF THE YORUBA
18: LEGBA OF THE FON
19: ANANSE THE SPIDER, OF THE ASHANTI
PART II: STORIES OF KINGDOMS AND PEOPLES
ANCIENT AFRICA
20: EGYPTIAN STORIES
21: ETHIOPIA
PEOPLES OF THE UPPER NILE AND EAST AFRICA
22: THE OROMO OF SOUTHERN ETHIOPIA
23: THE SHILLUK OF SOUTHERN SUDAN
24: THE LUO OF SUDAN AND UGANDA
25: THE GIKUYU OF KENYA
26: THE SWAHILI OF THE COAST
KINGDOMS OF THE GREAT LAKES
27: THE KINGDOM OF BUNYORO
28: THE KINGDOM OF BUGANDA
29: THE KINGDOM OF RWANDA
30: THE KINGDOM OF BURUNDI
CENTRAL EAST AFRICA
31: NSONG’A LIANJA, HERO OF THE MONGO
32: THE KUBA KINGDOM OF THE BUSHOONG: MBOOM AND WOOT
33: THE FIRST KINGS OF THE LUBA
34: THE KINGDOMS OF THE LUNDA
35: THE BEMBA OF ZAMBIA
THE PEOPLES OF SOUTHERN AFRICA
36: THE SHONA OF ZIMBABWE
37: THE NGUNI PEOPLES OF SOUTHERN AFRICA: ZULU, XHOSA, SWAZI
38: THE KHOI-KHOI: STORIES OF HEITSI-EIBIB
THE CENTRAL ATLANTIC
39: THE YAKA OF THE KWANGO RIVER
40: THE KINGDOM OF KONGO
41: THE FANG OF GABON AND CAMEROON
42: JEKI LA NJAMBE OF THE DUALA
43: THE BAMUN KINGDOM OF CAMEROON
FROM THE FOREST TO THE NIGER
44: THE IGBO
45: THE KINGDOM OF THE NUPE: TSOEDE
46: THE JUKUN KINGDOM OF THE KOROROFA
47: THE BACHAMA AND BATA OF THE UPPER BENUE
THE PEOPLES OF THE COAST
48: THE CITY OF BENIN
49: THE YORUBA OF SOUTH-WESTERN NIGERIA
50: BORGU AND THE LEGEND OF KISRA
51: THE FON AND THE KINGDOM OF DAHOMEY
52: THE AKAN-ASHANTI AND THE BAULE OF THE FOREST
THE MOSSI PLATEAU
53: THE FOUNDING OF GONJA
54: A DAGOMBA HERO
55: THE MOSSI OF BURKINA FASO
56: THE DOGON OF THE BANDIAGARA ESCARPMENT
LAKE CHAD AND THE CENTRAL SUDAN
57: THE SARA AND THE SOW OF LAKE CHAD
58: THE KINGDOM OF BAGIRMI
59: THE KINGDOMS OF KANEM AND BORNU
60: THE HAUSA
THE KINGDOMS OF THE WESTERN SUDAN
61: THE SONGHAY PEOPLES OF THE MIDDLE NIGER
62: THE CITY OF DJENNE
63: THE SONINKE
64: THE MANINKA AND THE EMPIRE OF MALI
65: THE BAMANA OF THE MIDDLE NIGER
THE PEOPLES OF SENEGAMBIA
66: THE MANDINKA OF SENEGAMBIA
67: THE SEREER OF SENEGAL
68: NJAAJAAN NJAAY AND THE WOLOF
69: THE FUTA TOORO
70: MALICK SY AND BONDU
THE SAHARA
71: THE TUAREG OF THE SAHARA
Sources and Further Reading
Index
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