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THE GIANT AND THE CAUSE OF THINDER - A West African Hausa tale

THE GIANT AND THE CAUSE OF THINDER - A West African Hausa tale

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ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 83

In Issue 83 of the Baba Indaba Children's Stories, Baba Indaba narrates the West African Hausa tale of how a man who believed himself to be "A Man Among Men" was bested by a little boy. Download and read the story to find out how the boy did this. Also, lookout for the moral of the story.

INCLUDES LINKS TO 8 FREE STORIES TO DOWNLOADS

Each issue 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".

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. Even so, this does not cover all folklore from all four corners of the world. Indeed folklore, legends and myths from Africa, Australia, Polynesia, and some from Asia too, are altogether quite different and seem to have originated on the whole from separate reservoirs of lore, legend and culture.
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