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- Herausgeber: Abela Publishing
- Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
- Sprache: Englisch
In this 29th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the African story about “Why the Whitecrow Never Speaks” also known locally as Tink-Tinkie. The birds hold a conference to decide which bird shall be king of the birds. They decide the one who flies highest shall be king.You’re invited to download and read this story to find out which bird flew highest and was voted King of the Birds. Look out for the moral in the tale!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.BUY ANY 4 of the 375+ BABA INDABA CHILDREN’S STORIES FOR ONLY $1, 6 for $1.50, 8 for $2 etc.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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Why the Whitecrow
Never Speaks
An African Folktale
Baba Indaba Children’s Stories
Published by
Abela Publishing, London
[2015]
WHY THE WHITECROW NEVER SPEAKS
Typographical arrangement of this edition
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Abela Publishing,
London, United Kingdom
2015
ISSN 2397-9607
Issue 29
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Introduction
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.
Where in the World? Look it Up!
This story was told to Baba Indaba when he was apprenticed to his Wenxoxi Indaba in Kwazulu-Natal. Can you find Oribi Gorge on a map? What country is it in?
Why the Whitecrow Never Speaks
A story, a story
Let it come, let it go
A story, a story
From long, long ago!
Umntwana Izwe! ChildrenListen! Once, a long, long time ago, the birds of the earth wanted a king. They thought mankind has a king, so have the animals, and why shouldn't they? A call went out for all to assemble at Oribi Gorge, on the Mzimkulwana (Im-zim-kool-waa-nah) river for an Indaba (gathering to discuss an issue). The gorge was wide enough and high enough to allow all the birds to assemble and to be heard.
Once all had assembled, the first order of business was to elect a chairman. But each bird thought his own kind more important than the others and no agreement could be reached. Someone proposed that Jackal be chairman as he was not a bird and had no interest in which bird became king. So, feeling very self-important, Jackal took the chairman’s seat.
