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Permissions Acknowledgments
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint or adapt from previously published material. In the case of adaptation, the author may have retitled some of the tales:
“The Contest of Riddles” from When the Spider Danced by Alexander Alland, Jr. Copyright © 1975 by Alexander Alland, Jr. By permission of Doubleday & Co., Inc.
“The Boy and the Bird” from “Eleven Kaguru Texts” (in African Studies 26, pp. 34–35) by T.O. Beidelman. Copyright © 1967 by Witwatersrand University Press. By permission of Witwatersrand University Press.
The Mwindo Epic by Daniel Biebuyck and Kahombo C. Mateene. Copyright © 1969 by The Regents of the University of California. By permission of the University of California Press.
Excerpt from Return to Laughter by Elinore Smith Bowen. Copyright © 1954 by Laura Bohannan. By permission of Doubleday & Co., Inc.
“The Frog and the Chameleon” and “Mwenendega and the Daughter of Wagothe” from “Kikuyu Tales” (in African Studies 11, pp. 125–127 and 3–4, respectively) by C. Cagnolo. Copyright © 1952 by Witwatersrand University Press. By permission of Witwatersrand University Press.
“The Five Helpers”; “Friends for a Time”; “Friendship True and False”; “Three Wives”; and “Wondrous Powers: Mirror, Sandals, and a Medicine Bag” from Tales Told in Togoland by A.W. Cardinall. By permission of the International African Institute, London, and Ada Cardinall.
“A Competition of Lies” from Defiant Maids and Stubborn Farmers: Tradition and Invention in Mende Story Performance by Donald Cosentino. Copyright © 1982 by Cambridge University Press. By permission of the author and Cambridge University Press.
“Rabbit and Carnivores” from African Folklore by Richard M. Dorson. Copyright © 1972 by Richard M. Dorson, collected and translated by Philip A. Noss from the narration of Daniel Ndanga. By permission of Doubleday & Company, Inc.
“The Chief’s Daughter and Her Husband and the Chief’s Son”; “The Chief’s Son, the Poor Man’s Son, and the Chief’s Daughter”; “The Devil, the Girl, and Her Young Man”; “The Digger-Out of Ground Squirrels and His Son and the Arab”; “The Four Champions”; “The Maiden, the Two Young Men, and the Lion”; “The Man, His Womenfolk, the Well, and the Soldier” from Hausa Tales and Traditions by Frank Edgar. Translated by Neil Skinner. Copyright © 1973 by Africana Publishing Corp. By permission of Africana Publishing Corp., 30 Irving Pl., New York, NY 10003, and Frank Cass & Co., Ltd., London.
“The Two Sisters” and “Working for the Tiger” from The Calabash of Wisdom and Other Igbo Stories by Romanus N. Egudu. Copyright © 1973 by Romanus N. Egudu. By permission of Nok Publishers International.
“Ture and the Woman’s Dogs” from The zande Trickster (pp. 217–223), edited by E.E. Evans-Pritchard. Copyright © Oxford University Press 1967. By permission of Oxford University Press.
Excerpts from Wa: A Case Study of Social Tensions as Reflected in the Oral Traditions of the Wala of Northern Ghana by Mona Fikry. Copyright © 1969 by Mona Fikry. By permission of the author.
“Four Wives” from Limba Stories and Story-Telling (pp. 152–155) by Ruth Finnegan. Copyright © Oxford University Press 1967. By permission of Oxford University Press.
“The Hare and the Spider” from Luo Religion and Folklore by Hans-Egil Hauge. Copyright © 1974 by Universitetsforlaget. By permission of Universitetsforlaget.
“Leopard and Cat,” “Outwitting Thieves,” and “Profitable Amends: A Wife for One Cowry” from Dahomean
Narrative by Frances S. Herskovits and Melville J. Herskovits. Copyright © 1958 by Northwestern University Press. By permission of Northwestern University Press.
“The Story of the Hare and the Small Buck” from “Kiniramba Folktales” (in Bantu Studies 5, pp. 347–348) by Frederick Johnson. Copyright © 1931 by Witwatersrand University Press. By permission of Witwatersrand University Press.
“The Snake, the Farmer, and the Heron” from A Selection of Hausa Stories (pp. 48–49), compiled and translated by H.A.S. Johnston. Copyright © Oxford University Press 1966. By permission of Oxford University Press.
“Monkey Steals a Drum” from Story, Medium and Masque: The Idea and Art of Yoruba Storytelling by Deirdre LaPin. Copyright © 1977 by Deirdre LaPin. By permission of the author.
“The Epic of the Great Dikithi” from “Epic Tales of the Mbukushu” (in African Studies 22, pp. 179–182) by Thomas J. Larson. Copyright © 1963 by Witwatersrand University Press. By permission of Witwatersrand University Press.
“A Man Who Could Transform Himself,” “A Rich Man and a Poor Man,” and “The King’s Daughter Who Lost Her Hair” from Akamba Stories (pp. 133–135, 129–131, and 120–126) by John S. Mbiti. Copyright © Oxford University Press 1966. By permission of Oxford University Press.
“How the Friendship of Hare and Jackal Came to an End,” “The Jealous Women,” “The Man and the Muskrat,” and “Tungululi and the Monsters” from There Was a Certain Man: Spoken Art of the Fipa (pp. 46–47, 62–66, 56–59, and 87–90), translated and edited by Roy Willis. Copyright © Roy Willis 1978. By permission of Oxford University Press.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Roger D. Abrahams is Professor of Folklore and Folklife at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He holds a B.A. from Swarthmore College, an M.A. from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a past president of the American Folklore Society, a former chairman of the English Department at the University of Texas, and a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar.
Professor Abrahams has done fieldwork in a range of African-American communities, from a ghetto neighborhood in Philadelphia to the Caribbean. He has also studied and written about Anglo-American folk songs and children’s lore. He has contributed widely to academic folklore journals as well as to such magazines as Smithsonian, and his most recent books include After Africa (with John Szwed), Singing the Master, and African-American Folktales, the companion volume to this book.
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