West African Folk Tales: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

West African Folk Tales, credited to William H. Barker, 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 the West African Folk Tales by William H. Barker. Read by David Barnes, Lucy Burgoyne, Christabel, Tammi L. Coles, Lizzie Driver, Esther, Ezwa, hefyd, Julian Jamison, Eva-Marie Quinones, roolynninms, Shurtagal. A collection of folk tales mostly centred around Anansi. In West African lore Anansi is known as a trickster god, and is often depicted as either a spider, a human or a combination of both. Thus many of the stories are attempts by Anansi to trick others for his own gain. Other stories are about why certain animals act in certain ways. (Summary by Lizzie Driver) For more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit librivox.org. M4B format available

Recording facts

• Recording title: West African Folk Tales
• Author credits: William H. Barker
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 35
• Listed recording duration: 2:35:56

Catalogue topics

• Barker
• children
• Anansi

Opening tracks: first 24 of 35

1. 01 - How We Got The Name Spider Tales — 3:39
2. 02 - How Wisdom Became The Property Of The Human Race — 2:55
3. 03 - Anansi and Nothing — 4:18
4. 04 - Thunder and Anansi — 6:54
5. 05 - Why the Lizard Continually Moves his Head up and Down — 6:56
6. 06 - Tit For Tat — 5:12
7. 07 - Why White Ants Always Harm Man's Property — 4:25
8. 08 - The Squirrel and the Spider — 3:29
9. 09 - Why We See Ants Carrying Bundles As Big As Themselves — 5:27
10. 10 - Why Spiders are Always Found in Corners — 4:32
11. 11 - Anansi and the Blind Fisherman — 2:31
12. 12 - Adzanumee and her Mother — 3:14
13. 13 - The Grinding-stone that Ground Flour by Itself — 4:32
14. 14 - Morning Sunrise — 2:30
15. 15 - Why the Sea-turtle When Caught Beats Its Breast with Its Forelegs — 2:19
16. 16 - How Beasts And Serpents First Came Into The World — 7:34
17. 17 - Honourable Minu — 2:44
18. 18 - Why the Moon and Stars Get Light from the Sun — 5:21
19. 19 - Ohia and the Thieving Deer — 9:31
20. 20 - How the Tortoise got its Shell — 3:45
21. 21 - The Hunter and the Tortoise — 3:26
22. 22 - Kwofi and the Gods — 2:17
23. 23 - The Lion and the Wolf — 2:29
24. 24 - Maku Mawu and Maku Fia — 8:08

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