African Fables That teach about God (Book 1)
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Keidel, Eudene
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1978
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Originally published in 1978 by Herald Press of Scottdale, PA and Kitchener, Ontario, this book is now reprinted by Wipf and Stock. It contains twenty-one folk tales gathered by a missionary who has worked extensively in Zaire. The T of C is unusual in that it gives after each title the topic addressed in the story and the time it takes to read the story. I have read the first seven. Some may be expanded fables. They are strong on trickery and aetiology. The couple of paragraphs after each story are heavy on moralizing, buttressed with scripture references. These comments fail to help articulate the individual tale's meaning. The seventh tale may be the best: The Frog's Strange Rules About Dinner (33). The frog invites the monkey to a friendship meal but insists that he have white hands to eat it. The monkey goes away angry. Later he invites the frog to a meal and serves it in a tree, insisting that the frog sit up straight on the branch to eat it. The frog of course falls out of the tree.
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Wipf and Stock Publishers
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3666 (Access ID)