What is particularly exciting about this book is that many of the stories, in their oral form, are almost as old as Africa itself.
Translated into English and other European languages chiefly in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries from their original languages--be they Ka.
Most of them were, in fact, first told in various African tongues around evening fires in centuries past--tales from, for example, the San and the Khoi, the original hunter-gatherers and livestock herders of Southern Africa.
What is particularly exciting about this book is that many of the stories, in their oral form, are almost as old as Africa itself