African Tales: Folklore of the Central African Republic

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Tales from the oral tradition of the Madija and Banda tribes, collected from village storytellers of the Central African Republic and translated by Polly Strong. New Read Books African Tales: Folklore of the Central African Republic By Rodney Wimer – kino-fada.fr Oh man, this is one of those classic super offensive missionary style I first came to Africa 26 years ago I came to give but found I was given to deals You know those books Someone writes down literal word for word translations of a very specific storyteller s interpretation of some very specifically localized folk tales, and then generalizes in the introduction how the Africans AfricaIsACountry think, feel, and understand the world The translation are particularly bad in this volume Oh man, this is one of those classic super offensive missionary style ...I read Why Monkeys Live in Trees and Other Stories from Benin immediately before this, so the comparison in the stories and the different focus of the compilers was interesting Monkeys focusedon this is why things are this way kind of stories, while African Tales was a little of that, but mostly tales of the trickster figure Tere It s culturally very interesting to see how those tales coincide...This book was very interesting I enjoyed the stories themselves but found it hard to read at times The main problem I had was sentence structure and how it seemed like a direct literal translation, with little thought to the meaning of the words themselves There was a lack of sentence variation, everything was extremely matter of fact It was so matter of fact that I had to look at the end of the story sometimes to see what the moral lesson was supposed to teach me That being said I did This book was very interesting I enjoyed the stories themselves but found it hard to read at times The main problem I had was sentence structure and how it seemed like a direct literal translation, with little thought to the meaning of the words themselves There was a lack of sentence variation, everything was extremely matter of fact It was so matter of fact that I had to look at the end of the story sometimes to see what the moral lesson was supposed to teach me That...This book is a collection of traditional stories that attempt to explain why the world is the way it is, especially why certain animals don t like each other The main moral I found is that your actions are always remembered, and that relationships are b...I don t know how unique these tales are to the Central African Republic, but I enjoyed this collection of stories of Tere the Trickster and origins of adversarial relationships between animals The moral at the end of each tale reminds me of Aesop s Fables My favorite story is Ten Orphans.good stories over all

African Tales: Folklore of the Central African Republic
  • English
  • 12 October 2019
  • Paperback
  • 95 pages
  • 1878893149
  • Rodney Wimer
  • African Tales: Folklore of the Central African Republic