Umbundu: Folktales from Angola 1962 First Edition Hardcover Book in Original Dust Jacket (Collected & Translated by Merlin Ennis)

<Condition is Good+ as Pictured> (normal wear with markings, visible edge-wear, gently bumped/rubbed corners, age appropriate toning to interior pages) size is approximately 8.25” x 5.75”

—In the middle of the wild bush country of West Africa live the Ovimbundu of Angola. For generations the transmission of their culture has been by word-of-mouth through the art of tribal story-tellers. Now for the first time an American who lived among them for almost 4o years has translated and written down these tales and legends from the Umbun-du, without altering their tone, pace and frank detail.

There is a mine of fresh material in these stories of magic and bizarre adventure, with special insight into the sensitivity, tensions, exuberance and pride of Angola and Black Africa. Here are thrilling records of fact and fancy, of ogres, taboos, witches, cannibalism, primitive courtship, tribal domestic problems, hunting, famine, adventures with animals and many
more dramatic complications intrinsic in the lives and lore of these long isolated peoples. Here also are fascinating parallels with the "Uncle Remus" stories of the Southern Folklore and even with classical and Norse mythology.

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