West African folktalesVivid folktales imparting basic life lessons collected over 35 years by a linguist who specialized in the spoken art of Sierra Leone, Ghana, & Nigeria. |
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| Title | West African folktales |
| Author | Richard A. Spears |
| Editors | Jack Berry, Richard A. Spears |
| Translated by | Jack Berry |
| Compiled by | Jack Berry |
| Contributor | Richard A. Spears |
| Publisher | Northwestern University Press, 1991 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Oct 7, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0810109794, 9780810109797 |
| Length | 229 pages |
| Subjects | › Fiction / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology Literary Collections / African Literary Criticism / African Literary Criticism / General Social Science / Folklore & Mythology |
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