When Hippo was hairy and other tales from Africa /
Thirty-six animal folktales from all parts of Africa, with factual information about each animal following the stories.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Barron's,
1988.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. for U.S. and Canada. |
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Table of Contents:
- Stories: Why does the lion roar? (Batonka)
- Why does the lion not eat fruit? (Hambakushu)
- Dreadful crime of Kadima the hare (Hambakushu)
- Why the leopard hides his food up a tree (Ndebele)
- How cheetah got his speed (Bushman)
- Why the cheeks of the cheetah are stained with tears (Zulu)
- Revenge of the wild dog (Ndebele)
- Greedy hyena (Shona)
- Tree-climbing jackal (Swaziland)
- How jackal got his markings (Hottentot)
- Day jackal fooled the king of beasts (Zulu)
- Elephant learns some manners (Shona)
- Elephant and the rain (Bushman)
- Why Rhino scatters his dung (Batonka)
- The lost quill (Ndebele)
- No fish for the hippo (Bushman)
- When Hippo was hairy (Ndebele)
- Days of the hunting buffalo (Bushman)
- Day baboon outwitted leopard (Zulu)
- Why giraffe and the oxpecker are good friends (Bushman)
- Why the giraffe has a long neck (East Africa)
- Giraffe in the sky (Bushman)
- Why waterbuck helped crocodile (Makushu, from the Okavango)
- How the waterbuck got its white circle
- The first zebra (From the Angoni of Central Africa)
- How the zebra got his stripes (Zulu)
- How Tsessebe got his peculiar horns (Bushman)
- Why the wart hog goes about on his knees (Zulu)
- Why wart hog is so ugly (East Africa)
- The race that was rigged (Swazi)
- Tug-of-war (Ndebele)
- Why the dassie has no tail (Xhosa)
- Foolishness of the ostrich (Bushman)
- Why ostrich has a long neck (Sesotho)
- Ostrich and her chicks (Masai)
- Living stones (Swazi)