ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 16 (Electronic)ÿÿ In issue 16 of the Baba Indaba Children's Stories, Baba Indaba narrates the San Bushman tale of THE GIRL FROM THE EARLY RACE WHO MADE THE STARS. This story has echos of the Zulu story ?The Stars and the Road of Stars? book 1 in the Baba Indaba Children?s Stories which tells of a maiden who created the stars and the Milky Way. That two races, separated by over 1,600 miles/2,700 km of African bush developed such similar folklore in a time when the only way of travel was by foot and communication by the spoken word, never ceases to amaze us. It is believed that folklore and tales are believed to have originated in India and made their way overland along the Silk and Spice routes and through Central Asia before arriving in Europe. However, no-one as yet has developed such a comprehensive theory for the rich tapestry that is African folklore. This book also has a "Where in the World - Look it Up" section, where young readers are challenged to look up a place on a map somewhere in the world. The place, town or city is relevant to the story, on map. HINT - use Google maps. Baba Indaba is a fictitious Zulu storyteller who narrates children's stories from around the world. Baba Indaba translates as "Father of Stories".

These beautiful and timeless stories from the African Bush were gathered more than a century ago and have touched thousands of readers ever since. The South African-born author, Sir Laurens van der Post, revered them and helped to make them known throughout the world. For this special new edition, Gregory McNamee has adapted the original nineteenth-century English translations to create modern versions of the stories for readers without a prior knowledge of the Bushman ways of life. The stories in this book carry universal observations and truths and, with their historical and ethnographic roots in the African Bushman culture, they are fascinating and educational for readers and listeners of all ages. They bear powerful testimony to a desert people living at one with Nature.

This new edition of the long-out-of print classic collection of Bushman tales provides a fascinating look into the life of these little-known people. As Megan Biesele writes in her Foreword: The fact that a family of trained linguists and their associates sat down between 1870 and 1884 with a group of /Xam people who had been temporarily sprung free of imprisonment in Cape Town's Breakwater Prison has immense potential consequences. San people today, like indigenous peoples all over the world, are quietly organizing educational futures for themselves which will make fine use of this record of the intellectual history of their culture. This edition reproduces the English text of the 1911 edition and is richly illustrated with photographs.

Skeletons in the long grass, live bullets in the garden and drunken soldiers roaming the town - this was the writer's first introduction to life in Africa. Swimming With Swallows is the perfect book for the armchair traveller.It is often funny, sometimes sad but always informative and entertaining. With her vivid descriptions the writer has captured the beauty and horror of Africa and has enabled the reader not only to see, but to taste and smell the reality of life in the cities and on the vast plains. This delightful book recalls her early days in West Africa with a young family - their magical and sometimes frightening adventures. She shares with us her involvement in a local marriage and funeral, her confrontation with a mad man in her home and the discovery of a murdered body in the town. Having returned to England the writer continued to travel, like the swallow, between Africa and Europe for the next twenty-five years. She explored the continent's deserts, its mountains and lakes before finally settling in SW France. She includes recipes collected on her travels, leaving us with a true flavour and taste of her fascinating life.

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