This collection of folktales from South Africa has been put together the author says, not for scholarship but for a love of the sunny country where he was born.

Favorite African Folktales is a landmark work that gathers many of Africa's most cherished folktales-stories from an oral heritage that predates Ovid and Aesop-

Mandela, the Nobel Laureate for Peace, has selected 32 African stories for this extraordinary new book, an anthology that presents Africa's oldest folk tales to

Folktales are timeless and, although a product of a particular culture, they have universal relevance because they give insight into the human condition. In Fol