Includes nine stories based on folklore from various African countries and three original stories, representing the cultural diversity which exists in Africa.
The river that went to the sky / Kasiya Makaka Phiri (Malawi) Gong gong / Amoafi Kwapong (Ghana) The hunter and the deerwoman / Funmi Osoba (Nigeria) Two of a kind / Masée Touré (Sierra Leone) No problem / Asenath Bole Odaga (Kenya) A most famous baker / Eva Dadrian (Egypt) How the tortoise won respect / Gcina Mulophe (South Africa) The Aboul family / Hassan Erraji (Morocco) Two brothers / Inno Sorsy (Ghana) Tiyotiyo / Charles Mungoshi (Zimbabwe) My godfather / Sousa Jamba (Angola) The new moon and the rain horn / Gaele Sobott-Mogwe (Botswana)