African Fable Novels & Stories

he said. After Ibekwe joined the rest of the children and sat down, the storyteller crossed his legs and opened his mouth and began to sing a song. The art of storytelling in Igbo land was as old as the language itself. Some of the folklores were derived from imaginations, history, fear, and strange beliefs in the ability of animals to speak, which added texture and beauty to the stories when told. Other stories were mere myths that were intended to scare children or dissuade them from doing a particular thing.

I sat down to pay close attention to whatever she has to say to me because I believed that was what I needed to hear. “I shall tell you a story…” she stirred up my emotion and I was tricked by this fascinating style of story telling. If you were a breed of where I came from in Africa, you must be a good story teller… and that was a gift from our chi to us, a blessing you may call it. So I had payed more attention to this her story.