Comprehensive and beautifully written, this collection of African Folktales is a stunning ethnographic achievement and riveting narrative of the mythical origins of the Zulu culture.
Indaba, My Children is a classic and indispensable resource for anyone interested in the cultural life of Africa and the human experience as it is filtered into myth..
The story continues all the way up to the colonial era, when a Portuguese Kapitanoh and his crew arrive on the African shore.
From there, an epic unfolds, an intricate and vivid cultural tapestry populated by gods and mortals, cattle herders and supreme kings, witch doctors, lovers, grave diggers, warriors, and handmaidens.
He begins with the creation myth, when Ninavanhu-Ma, the Great Mother, created the human race.
In this book, begun in response to the injustices against Africans and their culture, he sets these legends down in writing.
As a young man, Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa, a Zulu from the South African province of Natal, was determined to follow in the footsteps of his grandfather and become a tribal historian in order to keep the rich oral tradition of his culture alive.
Comprehensive and beautifully written, this collection of African Folktales is a stunning ethnographic achievement and riveting narrative of the mythical origins of the Zulu culture
