Bibliographical Note

This Dover edition, first published in 2009, is an unabridged republication of the text with a selection of illustrations from African Myths Together with Proverbs: A Supplementary Reader Composed of Folk Tales from Various Parts of Africa, Adapted to the Use of Children in the Public Schools, originally published by The Associated Publishers, Inc., Washington, D.C., in 1928.

 

 

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Woodson, Carter Godwin, 1875–1950.

African myths and folk tales / Carter Godwin Woodson.

p. cm.—(Dover children’s thrift classics)

Originally published: Washington, D.C. : Associated Publishers, 1928.

9780486114286

1. Tales—Africa. 2. Readers. I. Title.

PE1127.G4W7 2010

398.2096—dc22

2009033829

 

 

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