African Myths: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

African Myths, credited to Carter Woodson, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of African Myths by Carter Woodson. Read in English by KirksVoice. Story-telling in Africa is almost an institution. Certain persons, largely old omen, specialize in telling the youth interesting stories. Here and there are found professional story-tellers, those who go from place to place, devoting all of their time to this sort of occupation. They are the literary group of the tribe. They thus hand down to posterity the traditions of the fathers. - Summary by Carter Godwin Woodson

Recording facts

• Recording title: African Myths
• Author credits: Carter Woodson
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 40
• Listed recording duration: 3:49:47

Catalogue topics

• fables
• africa
• african myths

Opening tracks: first 24 of 40

1. 00 - Introduction — 3:21
2. 01 - Creation — 2:07
3. 02 - Why the Sun Shines by Day and the Moon by Night — 6:37
4. 03 - How Animals Came into the World — 7:40
5. 04 - The Origin of Lake Tanganyika — 3:48
6. 05 - The Beginning of Death — 11:01
7. 06 - Why Children Belong to the Mother — 6:29
8. 07 - The Ingrate — 4:31
9. 08 - The Jealousy of the Blind Man — 2:30
10. 09 - The Race for a Wife — 2:21
11. 10 - The Deer and the Snail — 2:30
12. 11 - Ohia and his Sorrows — 9:00
13. 12 - Why Some Women Never Eat Mutton — 3:44
14. 13 - The Fairy Wife — 5:33
15. 14 - The Disobedient Daughter's Marriage — 6:00
16. 15 - Kindness Misunderstood — 2:16
17. 16 - The Dog and the Leopard — 5:25
18. 17 - How the Dog Became the Friend of Man — 3:16
19. 18 - The Cats and Fowls — 3:23
20. 19 - Why Chickens Live with Man — 6:22
21. 20 - Why the Hawk Catches Chickens — 3:49
22. 21 - The Fox and the Goat — 3:37
23. 22 - Why Goats Live with Man — 7:19
24. 23 - The Lion, the Leopard, and the Dog — 3:40

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