African Myths & Tales (Gothic Fantasy)

This book shares many legends and folktales from Subsaharan Africa, the large region containing a wealth of many different cultural traditions and with them stories and storytelling. From stories of gods, the origins of people, tricksters’ exploits, animal fables, this book encompasses the end of the desert to the cape. Despite many of these stories having been transmitted orally for centuries and little written documentation, these stories have been compiled with a foreword to explain the nature of how these stories have evolved and how they were gathered. The volume is hardbound with debossed gilding on the cover, making for a suitable gift format for all occasions.