Skip to Main Content

Mythology: Africa

Africa Gallery

Hieroglyphs from a temple in Dandarah Egypt

Ram of Amun with King Taharqa

Head of a King, Nigerian Sculpture

Helmet Mask (Kponyungo) of West Africa

Regions of Africa

Selected Works

African Folklore by Philip M. Peek (Editor); Kwesi Yankah (Editor)
Call Number: GR350 .A33 2004
ISBN: 9780415939331
Publication Date: 2003-12-08
African Folklore by Richard M. Dorson (Editor)
Call Number: GR350 .D67
ISBN: 9780253302502
Publication Date: 1979-01-01
Crossing Borders Through Folklore by Alma Jean Billingslea-Brown
ISBN: 0826260098
Publication Date: 1999-01-01
The Sweetest Berry on the Bush by Nubia Kai; Marie Cochran (Illustrator)
Call Number: PS3561.A4115S84 1993
ISBN: 9780883780596
Publication Date: 1993-05-01

Central Africa

Selected Works
Online Resources

The Drunken King, or, the Origin of the State by Luc de Heusch
Call Number: GR357.3 .H4813 1982
ISBN: 9780253318329
Publication Date: 1982-07-22
Speaking with Vampires by Luise White
Call Number: GR355.6 .W48 2000
ISBN: 9780520217041
Publication Date: 2000-05-09

Congo Folktales

East Africa

Selected Works
Online Resources

Reclaiming My Dreams by Mukabi Kabira (Editor); Njogu Waita (Editor)
ISBN: 9789966792457
Publication Date: 2010-12-29
Remembering Nayeche and the Gray Bull Engiro by Mustafa Kemal Mirzeler
Call Number: GR356.52.J53 M57 2014
ISBN: 9781442626317
Publication Date: 2014-06-22

North Africa

Selected Works
Online Resources

The Egyptian Book of the Dead by E. A. Wallis Budge (Volume Editor)
Call Number: PJ1555 .A3 1960a
ISBN: 9780486218663
Publication Date: 1967-06-01
Egyptian Mythology by Geraldine Pinch
Call Number: BL2441.3 .P56 2004
ISBN: 9780195170245
Publication Date: 2004-04-08
Seers, Saints and Sinners by Elizabeth Wickett
Call Number: GR355 .W53 2012
ISBN: 9781780760537
Publication Date: 2012-07-25

South Africa

Selected Works
Online Resources

Indaba, my children by Credo Vusa'mazulu Mutwa
Call Number: GR350.2 .M88 1964
Publication Date: 1964
Queen of the tortoises by Gcina Mhlophe Hargreaves Ntukwana
Call Number: CHILDREN'S COLLECTION PZ8.1.M58 Qe 1990
Publication Date: 1990
The Tongue Is Fire by Harold Scheub
ISBN: 0585176191
Publication Date: 1996-01-01
The Uncoiling Python by Harold Scheub
ISBN: 0821443321
Publication Date: 2010-06-01

Folk tales

West Africa

Selected Works
Online Resources

The Adventures of Spider by Joyce Cooper Arkhurst; Jerry Pinkney (Illustrator)
Call Number: CHILDREN'S COLLECTION PZ8.1.A7 Ad 1964
ISBN: 9780316051071
Publication Date: 1992-11-02
Cow-Tail Switch by Harold Courlander; George Herzog; Madye L. Chastain (Illustrator)
Call Number: CHILDREN'S COLLECTION PZ8.1.C8 Co 1986
ISBN: 9780805002881
Publication Date: 1995-09-01
Gassire's Lute by Alta Jablow (Translator); Leo Dillon (Illustrator); Diane Dillon (Illustrator)
Call Number: GR350 .J3313 1991
ISBN: 9780881335439
Publication Date: 1991-01-01
The Hunterman and the Crocodile by Baba Wagué Diakité (Illustrator)
Call Number: CHILDREN'S COLLECTION PZ8.1.D564 Hu 1997
ISBN: 9780590898287
Publication Date: 1997-03-01
The Story of Lightning and Thunder by Ashley Bryan (Illustrator)
Call Number: CHILDREN'S COLLECTION PZ8.1.B838 St 1993
ISBN: 0689318367
Publication Date: 1993-10-31
The Trickster in West Africa by Robert D. Pelton
Call Number: GR350.3 .P44
ISBN: 0520067916
Publication Date: 1989-09-21
Yes and No by Alta Jablow (Compiled by); Paul Goodman (Introduction by)
Call Number: GR350 .J3 1973
ISBN: 9780837167572
Publication Date: 1973-04-15

African Diasporic

Selected Works
Online Resources

Clear Word and Third Sight by Catherine A. John; Donald E. Pease (Series edited by)
ISBN: 9780822385097
Publication Date: 2003-10-31
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Folklore by Anand Prahlad
Call Number: GR111.A47 G74 2006
ISBN: 0313330352
Publication Date: 2005-12-30
Haitian Vodou by Patrick Bellegarde-Smith (Editor); Claudine Michel (Editor)
Call Number: BL2490 .H35 2006
ISBN: 0253347564
Publication Date: 2006-12-07
The Things That Fly in the Night by Giselle Liza Anatol
ISBN: 9780813565750
Publication Date: 2015-02-16

Anansi Stories: Jamaica

Daniel J. Evans Library - MS: LIB2300 - 2700 Evergreen Parkway, NE. Olympia, WA 98501 - 360-867-6250