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| Introduction | |
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| A Note on the Text | |
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| List of Maps | |
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| Some General Themes | |
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| Stories About Hunters | |
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| The San Peoples of Southern Africa | |
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| Pygmies of the Central African Forests | |
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| The Songhay Hunters of the Niger River | |
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| The Origin of Hunters' Associations: Sanen and Kontron of the Manden | |
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| How Hunters Learned about Magic | |
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| The Animal Bride I: The Changed Skin | |
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| The Animal Bride II: Sirankomi | |
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| The Cattle-Herders | |
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| Khoi-Khoi Cattle Stories | |
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| Fulbe Stories of Cattle | |
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| The Maasai of East Africa | |
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| The Great Lakes I: The Origin of Cattle (Rwanda) | |
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| The Great Lakes II: The Story of Wamara (BaHaya) | |
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| The Chagga of East Africa: Murile | |
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| Tricksters | |
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| Uthlakanyana, the Zulu Child Trickster | |
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| Stories of Moni-Mambu of the BaKongo | |
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| Ture, the Zande Trickster | |
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| Eshu of the Yoruba | |
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| Legba of the Fon | |
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| Ananse the Spider, of the Ashanti | |
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| Stories of Kingdoms and Peoples | |
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| Ancient Africa | |
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| Egyptian Stories | |
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| Ethiopia | |
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| Peoples of the Upper Nile and East Africa | |
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| The Oromo of Southern Ethiopia | |
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| The Shilluk of Southern Sudan | |
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| The Luo of Sudan and Uganda | |
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| The Gikuyu of Kenya | |
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| The Swahili of the Coast | |
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| Kingdoms of the Great Lakes | |
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| The Kingdom of Bunyoro | |
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| The Kingdom of Buganda | |
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| The Kingdom of Rwanda | |
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| The Kingdom of Burundi | |
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| Central East Africa | |
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| Nsong's Lianja, Hero of the Mongo | |
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| The Kuba Kingdom of the Bushoong: Mboom and Woot | |
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| The First Kings of the Luba | |
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| The Kingdoms of the Lunda | |
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| The Bemba of Zambia | |
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| The Peoples of Southern Africa | |
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| The Shona of Zimbabwe | |
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| The Nguni Peoples of Southern Africa: Zulu, Xhosa, Swazi | |
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| The Khoi-Khoi: Stories of Heitsi-Eibib | |
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| The Central Atlantic | |
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| The Yaka of the Kwango River | |
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| The Kingdom of Kongo | |
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| The Fang of Gabon and Cameroon | |
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| Jeki la Njambe of the Duala | |
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| The Bamun Kingdom of Cameroon | |
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| From the Forest to the Niger | |
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| The Igbo | |
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| The Kingdom of the Nupe: Tsoede | |
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| The Jukun Kingdom of the Kororofa | |
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| The Bachama and Bata of the Upper Benue | |
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| The Peoples of the Coast | |
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| The city of Benin | |
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| The Yoruba of South-western Nigeria | |
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| Borgu and the Legend of Kisra | |
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| The Fon and the Kingdom of Dahomey | |
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| The Akan-Ashanti and the Baule of the Forest | |
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| The Mossi Plateau | |
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| The Founding of Gonja | |
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| A Dagomba Hero | |
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| The Mossi of Burkina Faso | |
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| The Dogon of the Bandiagara Escarpment | |
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| Lake Chad and the Central Sudan | |
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| The Sara and the Sow of Lake Chad | |
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| The Kingdom of Bagirmi | |
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| The Kingdoms of Kanem and Bornu | |
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| The Hausa | |
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| The Kingdoms of the Western Sudan | |
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| The Songhay Peoples of the Middle Niger | |
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| The City of Djenne | |
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| The Soninke | |
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| The Maninka and the Empire of Mali | |
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| The Bamana of the Middle Niger | |
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| The Peoples of Senegambia | |
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| The Mandinka of Senegambia | |
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| The Sereer of Senegal | |
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| Njaajaan Njaay and the Wolof | |
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| The Futa Tooro | |
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| Malick Sy and Bondu | |
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| The Sahara | |
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| The Tuareg of the Sahara | |
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| Sources and Further Reading | |
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| Index | |