The Silence of the Hippo: African Folktales Told by Children

The Silence of the Hippo: African Folktales Told by ChildrenThe African imagination unmercifully breaks down European preconceptions of what a folktale is supposed to look like. Poetic, somewhat absurd, and in some places dark such are the short folktales in this book. Most of them come out of traditional African folklore, as reimagined by child storytellers, with a rather distinctive flavor. These stories came into the hands of the Czech artist David Bhm in the suitcase of his sister Terezie as a stack of

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