Woven Folktale

WHY THE CAT KILLS RATS; AN AFRICAN FOLKTALE ANSA was King of Calabar for fifty years. He had a very...

IN the olden days the thunder and lightning lived on the earth amongst all the other people, but the king...

OKUN ARCHIBONG was one of King Archibong's slaves, and lived on a farm near Calabar. He was a hunter, and...

During the reign of Oba Ozolua (1481 – 1504), two of his wives, Oloi Idia and Oloi Ohonmi, gave birth...

EFFIONG Edem was a native of Cobham Town. He had a very fine daughter, whose name was Afiong. All the...

A CHIEF of Inde named Inkita had a son named Ayong Kita, whose mother had died at his birth. The...

Three brothers were traveling through the dense rain forest jungle. They had been traveling on foot for almost a full...

VERY many years ago, before the oldest man alive at the present time can remember, the towns of Ikom, Okuni,...

EKPO and Etim were half-brothers, that is to say they had the same mother, but different fathers. Their mother first...

The Yoruba tribe were believed to have emerged from Oduduwa (one of the servants of Olodumare- the Supreme Being) who...