Told by Starlight in Chad

Posted on 02 November 2017 by Joseph Brahim Seid

In the evening, there are traditional games Excitement fills the air a tumult is unleashed The drums reverberate, roar, summon to the dance Their staccato boom echoes through the savannah and over the rolling, sandy hills The young perform war dances, competing in strength, agility and skill Simulating combat, they brandish their assegais, crouch, rise up and face off in rapid succession They stamp the ground furiously with their feet a cloud of dust envelops them in a tremendous halo of glory All this time, the tom toms are vibrating, their frenzy marvelously matching the dancers movements Rhythm of life, captivating, lyrical, spellbinding magic With fertile, protean imagination, griot and bard recite the prowess and deeds of their distant ancestors or sing of the beauty and charms of their betrothed Romantized scenes from Seid s boyhood, like the festival depicted here, as well as stories from the golden age of empires and other timeless tales in this collection evoke positive images of Chad and Africa generally African readers, young and old, regardless of locality, will hear echoes of the folktales, fables, and legends narrated by their grandmothers of an evening under the stars or by the fireside In the literature classroom, at secondary and tertiary level, Seid s imagery should resonate and appeal to the sensibilities of African learners from similar socio cultural and historical environments This same imagery can, in turn, be used to introduce non African learners to Africa On a continent grappling still to forge new beginnings out of hope and deep despair, cruelty and great humanity, reminders of the past that evoke positive affect and historical figures and events that inspire a sense of pride about being African can enhance endeavor Born in N Djamena, Chad in 1927, of Sara Gor Bulala parentage, Joseph Brahim Seid received his primary education in French colonial schools in N Djamena and Braazaville, Congo and secondary educatio Free Read Told by Starlight in Chad [ By ] Joseph Brahim Seid [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr Told by Starlight in Chad is a collection of stories by Chadian writer Joseph Brahim Seid, translated from French by Karen Haire Hoenig I ve tagged this post with short stories but they aren t really short stories in the literary tradition they are fables or folk tales in the oral tradition I m not sure whether they are all traditional stories or new ones, or how true they are to the way the stories might be told by starlight.In some ways the material seems very familiar wicked ...Myths and fables from Chad we are in the genre of written down oral tradition having been told through the centuries And these types of stories seem to be of the same sorts across the world There are stories of creation How tribes came to be, how villages were founded Stories of moral How good and bad leaders lead their countries or tribes, how they treat others And there are stories reminiscent of G...Around the World challenge Chad J ai lu ce livre en traduction anglaise parce que je ne savais pas que le Tchad est un pays francophone se juge C est un pays d o peu de livres proviennent car la tradition orale y est encore tr s forte Et a me fait de la peine de le dire mais ce livre tait loin d tre poustouflant C est un recueil de contes dont certains personnages peuvent para tre familiers la cruelle belle m re, la princesse dont l unique attrait est la beaut m me si elle a le QI Around the World challenge Chad J ai lu ce livre en traduction anglaise parce que je ne savais pas que le Tchad est un pays francophone se juge C est un pays d o peu de livres proviennent car la tradition orale y est encore tr s forte Et a me fait de la peine de le dire mais ce livre tait loin d tre poustouflant C est un recueil de contes dont certains personnages peuvent para tre familiers la cruelle belle m ...COUNTRY CHADThis book is a collection of Chadian folklore the kinds of stories that are told at night around a campfire hence the title of the book There is a world origin story, a Chad foundation story, a God punishes the world by flooding it story, a how Islam came to Chad story, and several tales that bear a remarkable resemblance to Western European folktales My favorite was The Most Beautiful Girl on Earth, Hidden under an Ass Skin, in which an unmarried woman prays to become pr COUNTRY CHADThis book is a collection of Chadian folklore the kinds of stories that are told at night around a campfire hence the title of the book There is a world origin story, a Chad foundation story, a God punishes the world by flooding it story, a how Islam came to Chad story, and several tales that bear a remarkable resemblance to Western European folktales My favorite was The Most Beautiful Girl on Earth, Hidden under an Ass Skin, in which an unmarried woman prays to become pregnant She does, and she gives birth to an ass foal She raises the foal as her daughter One day, a little boy hears n...Der er ikke rasende meget sk nlitteratur fra Tchad at v lge imellem Og hvis man ikke l ser fransk, er der n rmest intet Told by Starlight in Chad af Joseph Brahim Seid oversat til engelsk af Karen Haire Hoenig fra det oprindelige franske er faktisk den eneste udgivelse p engelsk, jeg overhovedet har kunnet opspore til brug for mit l seprojekt, Verden rundt i b ger Der er tale om en samling korte fort llinger, myter, legender og folkeeventyr fra Tchad Ganske velskrevne og egentlig ogs in Der er ikke rasende meget sk nlitteratur fra Tchad at v lge imellem Og hvis man ikke l ser fransk, er der n rmest intet Told by Starlight in Chad af Joseph Brahim Seid oversat til engelsk af Karen Haire Hoenig fra det oprindelige franske er faktisk den eneste udgivelse p engelsk, jeg overhovedet har kunnet opspore til brug for...Short story fables most only a few pages from Chad All them are excessively positive and joyous in their action and telling There are monsters, evil step mothers, forsaken children, stolen magical objects Most of the stories originated in oral tradition about the founding of the nation and t...95 Chad This is a series of tales written down from oral tradition Some of them sound familiar, as you will find that there is your typical wicked stepmother and the prettiest princess of them all The stories are straigh...Chad Chad, land of plenty, land of happiness and land of brotherly love It is said that they continue to love one another somewhere in this old world of ours There can be no happiness without the joy one feels in the bosom of the family.Read the lovely preface first This little collection of very short stories tells some of the history of Chad and its people, using a mixture of legends and facts It wouldn t take up many starlit nights, but it does cover a wider ran...quite disappointing i have to say few of these very short stories did actually tell a tale, some feltlike explanations to historical cultural facts or even introductions to what culd have been a story as I plan to read a book from every country i cant really consider this to qualify as the book f...

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02 November 2017

Joseph Brahim Seid