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- Herausgeber: Abela Publishing
- Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
- Sprache: Englisch
SSN: 2397-9607 Issue 243In this 243rd issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the story of Amys and Amyle, two knights who lived in Lombardy a long, long time ago. Their wives were the best friends in the world.From the moment they could walk they were never seen apart; if they ever did quarrel no one ever heard it; and by the time they were twelve years old they had grown so like each other that even their parents could hardly tell the difference between them.It was in their twelfth year that the duke, their liege lord, bade all his vassals to a great festival to be held in his castle, and the boys went with their fathers. The boys, who were merry little fellows, entertained many and played many pranks. The duke was entranced he declared that they must remain at the court with him.At first the boys felt unhappy in this strange new world, and became closer than ever. They learned how to shoot at a mark and tilt at a ring and to sing sweet love-songs.When Amys and Amyle were eighteen years old, they were considered men and able to cross lances with the bravest. They swore oaths which made them brothers in arms, and obliged them to fight for each other and avenge each other’s wrongs. Later, much later they competed in their first tournament after which they were knighted and given high posts in the Duke’s court. Some were jealous at their rapid promotion and began spreading rumours about them.But what happened to Sir Amys and Sir Amyle you ask? Were they outmanoeuvred by their political opponents or did they live happily ever after? Well, you’ll just have to download and read the story to find out. Wont you!Baba Indaba is a fictitious Zulu storyteller who narrates children's stories from around the world. Baba Indaba translates as "Father of Stories".Each issue also has a "WHERE IN THE WORLD - LOOK IT UP" section, where young readers are challenged to look up a place on a map somewhere in the world. The place, town or city is relevant to the story. HINT - use Google maps.33% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities.INCLUDES LINKS TO DOWNLOAD 8 FREE STORIES
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017
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AMYS AND AMYLE
An Old Romantic Tale
Baba Indaba Children’s Stories
Published By
Abela Publishing, London
2016
AMYS AND AMYLE
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2016
Baba Indaba Children’s Stories
ISSN 2397-9607
Issue 243
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An Introduction to Baba Indaba
Baba Indaba, pronounced Baaba Indaaba, lived in Africa a long-long time ago. Indeed, this story was first told by Baba Indaba to the British settlers over 250 years ago in a place on the South East Coast of Africa called Zululand, which is now in a country now called South Africa.
In turn the British settlers wrote these stories down and they were brought back to England on sailing ships. From England they were in turn spread to all corners of the old British Empire, and then to the world.
In olden times the Zulu’s did not have computers, or iPhones, or paper, or even pens and pencils. So, someone was assigned to be the Wenxoxi Indaba (Wensosi Indaaba) – the Storyteller. It was his, or her, job to memorise all the tribe’s history, stories and folklore, which had been passed down from generation to generation for thousands of years. So, from the time he was a young boy, Baba Indaba had been apprenticed to the tribe’s Wenxoxi Indaba to learn the stories. Every day the Wenxoxi Indaba would narrate the stories and Baba Indaba would have to recite the story back to the Wenxoxi Indaba, word for word. In this manner he learned the stories of the Zulu nation.
In time the Wenxoxi Indaba grew old and when he could no longer see or hear, Baba Indaba became the next in a long line of Wenxoxi Indabas. So fond were the children of him that they continued to call him Baba Indaba – the Father of Stories.
When the British arrived in South Africa, he made it his job to also learn their stories. He did this by going to work at the docks at the Point in Port Natal at a place the Zulu people call Ethekwene (Eh-tek-weh-nee). Here he spoke to many sailors and ships captains. Captains of ships that sailed to the far reaches of the British Empire – Canada, Australia, India, Mauritius, the Caribbean and beyond.
He became so well known that ship’s crew would bring him a story every time they visited Port Natal. If they couldn’t, they would arrange to have someone bring it to him. This way his library of stories grew and grew until he was known far and wide as the keeper of stories – a true Wenxoxi Indaba of the world.
Baba Indaba believes the tale he is about to tell in this little book, and all the others he has learned, are the common property of Umntwana (Children) of every nation in the world - and so they are and have been ever since men and women began telling stories, thousands and thousands of years ago.
Location of KwaZulu-Natal (shaded in red)
