THE ATHENAEUMFolk Stories from Southern NigeriaElphinstone Dayrell
Legend
Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textStories from the Cross River country of southern Nigeria, written down by Elphinstone Dayrell, a colonial district officer, and published in 1910 with an introduction by Andrew Lang. There are tortoises, leopards, kings and ghosts, and explanations of how things came to be. They read like stories meant to be told aloud.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 2 hr 55 min
- Where to find it
- The African Reading Room
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #34655. In the public domain in the United States.