Notes

'These exciting stories are about tricks and magic, cunning heroes and wicked villains, and the threats of terrifying ghosts. Most of all they are about West Africa where storytelling was born, and where people still gather to make each other weep with sadness, shiver with fear or laugh out loud at their amazing stories. Each story has a short introduction explaining its origin, and maps locate the regions where each was first told and retold'--Back cover