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Popular culture of East Africa: oral literature.
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- [Nairobi, Kenya] Longman [1972]
- 1972
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 74-6531 Schwarzman Building M2 - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building M2 to submit a request in person.
Popular culture of East Africa: oral literature.
- Text
- [Nairobi, Kenya] Longman [1972]
- 1972
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 398-L (Liyong, T. Popular culture of East Africa) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Oral literature of the Asians in East Africa / Mubina Hassanali Kirmani, Sanaullah Kirmani.
- Text
- 2002
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text GR355.6.E27K57 2002 Off-site Oral literature of the Asians in East Africa / Mubina Hassanali Kirmani, Sanaullah Kirmani.
- Text
- Nairobi : East African Educational Publishers, 2002.
- 2002
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text ReCAP 13-10132 Offsite Folk tales & fables of the Middle East and Africa / Robert Ingpen & Barbara Hayes.
- Text
- New York : Chelsea House, c1994.
- 1994
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J 398.2 F Schwarzman Building M2 - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building M2 to submit a request in person.
Oral literature of the Asians in East Africa / Mubina Hassanali Kirmani, Sanaullah Kirmani.
- Text
- Nairobi : East African Educational Publishers, 2002.
- 2002
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text GR355.6.E27 K57 2002 Off-site Popular culture of East Africa: oral literature.
- Text
- [Nairobi, Kenya] : Longman, [1972]
- 1972
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text GR360.K43 L59 Off-site Zanzibar tales : told by natives of the east coast of Africa / translated from the original Swahili by George W. Bateman ; illustrated by Walter Bobbett.
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- Chicago : A.C. McClurg & Co., 1901.
- 1901
- 2 Items
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https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t13n22r9bItem details Format Call Number Item Location Text *OEZE (Bateman, G. W. Zanzibar tales) Schwarzman Building M2 - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building M2 to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 398-B (Bateman, G. Zanzibar tales) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Zanzibar tales told by natives of the east coast of Africa / translated from the original Swahili by George W. Bateman ; illustrated by Walter Bobbett.
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- Zanzibar : Gallery Publications, 2001.
- 2001
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 06-612 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Maasai religion and folklore / Hans-Egil Hauge.
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- Nairobi, Kenya : City Print. Works, [1979]
- 1979
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 86-752 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
The Suk : their language and folklore / by Mervyn W.H. Beech. With introduction by Charles Eliot.
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- New York, Negro Universities Press [1969]
- 1969-1911
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text GN652.S91 B4 Off-site The Suk; their language and folklore, by Mervyn W. H. Beech, with introduction by Sir Charles Eliot.
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- Oxford [Eng.] Clarendon Press, 1911.
- 1911
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 572.967-B (Beech, M. Suk) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Tales of East Africa : folktales from Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania / illustrations by Jamilla Okubo.
- Text
- San Francisco : Chronicle Books, [2020]
- 2020
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 21-902 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
The Suk; their language and folklore, by Mervyn W. H. Beech. With introd. by Charles Eliot.
- Text
- New York, Negro Universities Press [1969]
- 1969-1911
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text D-19 3084 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The Suk ; their language and folklore / by Mervyn W. H. Beech. With introd. by Charles Eliot.
- Text
- New York : Negro Universities Press, [1969]
- 1969-1911
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text GN652.S8 B4 1969 Off-site The Suk; their language and folklore, by Mervyn W. H. Beech. With introd. by Charles Eliot.
- Text
- New York, Negro Universities Press [1969]
- 1969-1911
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text GN652.S91 B4 Off-site Maasai religion and folklore / Hans-Egil Hauge.
- Text
- Nairobi, Kenya : City Print. Works, [1979]
- 1979
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text AFR.EAST H 292 m Off-site The Suk; their language and folklore, with introduction by Sir Charles Eliot.
- Text
- Oxford [Eng.] Clarendon Press, 1911.
- 1911
- 1 Item
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http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.ebookbatch.ASP_batch:ASP1000065143blfiItem details Format Call Number Item Location Text AFR.EAST B 391 s Off-site Safiri the singer; East African tales [by] Eleanor B. Heady. Illustrated by Harold James.
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- Chicago, Follett [1972]
- 1972
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 398.24-H (Heady, E. Safiri the singer) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Africana; or, The heart of heathen Africa. By the Rev. Duff Macdonald.
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- London, Simpkin, Marshall & co. 1882.
- 1882
- 2 Items
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 266-M (Macdonald, D. Africana) v. 2 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 266-M (Macdonald, D. Africana) v. 1 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
A classification of the folktales of the northern East African cattle area by types [microform].
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- [Berkeley] 1966.
- 1966
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Micro R-2766 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Sungura mjanja = Hare is a rascal : East African tales / written by D.E. Diva and illustrated by Ruth Yudelowitz.
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- Nairobi : Eagle Press, 1953.
- 1953
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Micro F-9726 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Speaking with vampires [electronic resource] : rumor and history in colonial Africa / Luise White.
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- Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2000.
- 2000
- 2 Resources
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Speaking with vampires : rumor and history in colonial Africa / Luise White.
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- Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2000.
- 2000
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 01-208 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Speaking with vampires [electronic resource] : rumor and history in colonial Africa / Luise White.
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- Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2000.
- 2000
- 1 Resource
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https://hdl-handle-net.i.ezproxy.nypl.org/2027/heb.04147Speaking with vampires [electronic resource] : rumor and history in colonial Africa / Luise White.
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- Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 2008, c2000.
- 2008-2000
- 1 Resource
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https://hdl-handle-net.i.ezproxy.nypl.org/2027/heb.94147Kiunangi : or, Story and history from Central Africa / written by boys in the schools of the Universities' Mission to Central Africa ; translated and edited by A. C. Madan.
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- London : G. Bell, 1887.
- 1887
- 1 Item
Available Online
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/221d0080-c607-012f-8f8f-58d385a7bc34Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 326.967-M (Madan, A. Kiunangi) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Songs and tales from the Dark Continent : recorded from the singing and the sayings of C. Kamba Simango, Ndau tribe, Portuguese East Africa, and Madikane Čele, Zulu tribe, Natal, Zululand, South Africa.
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- New York : G. Schirmer, [1920]
- 1920
- 1 Item
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https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/708f1590-f0a2-0134-29ed-61411044fb81Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 784.4-B (Burlin, N. Songs and tales) c.2 [Photocopy] Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
The JVC video anthology of world music and dance, Vol. 16: The Middle East and Africa I [videorecording]
- Moving image
- 1974-1988.
- 1974-1988
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image *MGZIA 4-1472 Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Safiri the singer; East African tales [by] Eleanor B. Heady. Illustrated by Harold James.
- Text
- Chicago, Follett [1972]
- 1972
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text 27254.60.20.5 Off-site Bantu beliefs and magic [microform], with particular reference to the Kikuyu and Kamba tribes of Kenya colony; together with some reflections on East Africa after the war, by C. W. Hobley...with an introduction by Sir James G. Frazer.
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- London, H.F. & G. Witherby, 1922.
- 1900-1983
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MICROFILM 569 Off-site Bantu beliefs and magic; with particular reference to the Kikuyu and Kamba tribes of Kenya Colony, together with some reflections on East Africa after the war, by C. W. Hobley; with an introduction by Sir James G. Frazer.
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- London, Witherby [1938]
- 1938
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 572.967-H (Hobley, C. Bantu beliefs and magic. 1938) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Bantu beliefs and magic; with particular reference to the Kikuyu and Kamba tribes of Kenya Colony, together with some reflections on East Africa after the war by C.W. Hobley.
- Text
- New York, Barnes & Noble [1967]
- 1967
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text D-18 3797 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 572.967-H (Hobley, C. Bantu beliefs and magic. 1968) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
The language of the land : living among the Hadzabe in Africa / James Stephenson.
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- New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.
- 2000
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text DT443.3.H37 S73 2000 Off-site And in the beginning-- / by Sheron Williams ; illustrated by Robert Roth.
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- New York : Atheneum ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, 1992.
- 1992
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc F 95-507 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
A classification of folktales of the northern East African cattle area by types / Erastus Ojo Arewa.
- Text
- New York : Arno Press, 1980.
- 1980
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text AFR.EAST. Ar 34 c Off-site The ostrich girl / Ray Prather.
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- New York : Scribner, c1978.
- 1978
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J 398.2 P Schwarzman Building M2 - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building M2 to submit a request in person.
How Giraffe got such a long neck-- and why Rhino is so grumpy / retold by Michael Rosen ; pictures by John Clementson.
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- New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, c1993.
- 1993
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J PIC R Schwarzman Building M2 - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building M2 to submit a request in person.
Mole rat and the mountain. Pictures by Adrienne Moore.
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- [Nairobi : East African Publishing House, c1973]
- 1973
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J 398.2 R Offsite Azania zamani : mity, legendy i tradycje ludów Afryki wschodniej / Eugeniusz Rzewuski.
- Text
- Warszawa : Iskry, 1978
- 1978
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text GR355.6 .R9 Off-site Agikuyu folk tales.
- Text
- London : Oxford U. P., [c1966]
- 1966
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J 398.2 N Schwarzman Building M2 - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building M2 to submit a request in person.
Black tales for white children.
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- Boston, New York : Houghton Mifflin company, [1914]
- 1914
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J 398 S Offsite Dichten und Denken der Dschaggeneger; Beiträger zur ostafrikanischen Volkskunde.
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- Leipzig, Verlag der Evang. Luth. Mission, 1909.
- 1909
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text ZBD (Gutmann, B. Dichten und Denken der Dschaggeneger) Offsite Miujiza ya Mlima Kolelo / Hammie Rajab.
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- Dar es Salaam : Busara Publications, c1982.
- 1982
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc C 92-214 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Where the leopard passes : a book of African folk tales / by Geraldine Elliot ; Illustrated by Sheila Hawkins ; with a foreword by Laura Simms.
- Text
- New York, Schocken Books 1987.
- 1987
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 88-840 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Bāzmāndahʹhāʹyī az farhang-i dawrān-i jāhilī dar tamaddun-i Islāmī / Idevārd Vistirmārk ; tarjamah va taʻlīqāt, ʻAlī Bulvukbāshī.
- Text
- Tihrān : Farhang-i Jāvīd, 1396 [2017]
- 2017
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text GR353 .W47165 2017 Off-site The princess who lost her hair / by Jeremy Kisling ; based on the story by Tololwa Mollel.
- Text
- Woodstock, Illinois : Dramatic Publishing Company, [2016]
- 2016
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text ReCAP 22-2693 Offsite Not available - In use until 2024-06-26 - Please for assistance.Ethnographie Nordost-Afrikas / Von Philipp Paulitschke.
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- New York : Johnson Reprint, 1967.
- 1967-1893
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text DT403 .P32 1967 v.2 Off-site Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text DT403 .P32 1967 v.1 Off-site Ethnographie Nordost-Afrikas ... Von dr. Philipp Paulitschke ...
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- Berlin, D. Reimer, 1893-96.
- 1893-1896
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text GN645.P33 [v.2] Off-site Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text GN645.P33 [v.1] Off-site
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