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It is a voice echoing through the village night, it is a fire around which the generations gather.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After the two books of <em>54 Tales of Africa<\/em>, which crossed the continent one tale per country, this special volume applies the same golden rule to a single country: <strong>C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire<\/strong>, ethnic group by ethnic group.<\/p>\n<h3>Four ethnolinguistic groups, one whole country<\/h3>\n<p>The tales are organized according to the four major Ivorian cultural groups:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Akan<\/strong> \u2014 Abbey, Abidji, Abour\u00e9, Abron, Adioukrou, Ahizi, Alladian, Agni, Appolo-Nzima, Atti\u00e9, Avikam, Baoul\u00e9, \u00c9bri\u00e9, Ega, \u00c9hotil\u00e9, Essouma, Krobou, Yaour\u00e9<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gur<\/strong> \u2014 Birifor, Camara, Degha, Komono, Koulango, Lohron, Lobi, Mangoro, Senufo, Siti, Tagbana<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kru<\/strong> \u2014 Bakw\u00e9, B\u00e9t\u00e9, Dida, Gnedeboua, Godi\u00e9, Gu\u00e9r\u00e9, Kodia, Kouya, Kouzi\u00e9, Kotrohou, Kroumen, Niaboua, Neyo, Oubi, Wan\u00e9, Wob\u00e9<\/li>\n<li><strong>Manden<\/strong> \u2014 Bi\u00e9lou, Gban, Gouro, Koyaka, Ligbi, Mahouka, Malinke, Marka, Mona, Ngin, Nigbi, Toura, Wan, Yacouba<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Each tale names the ethnic group it comes from. When several ethnic groups are listed, it means the same story \u2014 or a very similar one \u2014 circulates among them: a concrete way of showing what the peoples of C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire have in common.<\/p>\n<h3>Page by page<\/h3>\n<p>The spider\u2019s mischief, the tortoise\u2019s wisdom, the hare\u2019s cunning: <em>The Envious Wasp<\/em>, <em>The Sacred Drum<\/em>, <em>Why the Fish Lives in Water<\/em>, <em>Koasia, the One Nobody Looked At<\/em>, <em>The Warthog\u2019s Shame<\/em>, <em>The Village of Three Voices<\/em>, <em>The Stubborn Child<\/em>, <em>The Golden Braid<\/em>, <em>The Man Who Heard Everything<\/em>, <em>The Cockroach and the Termite<\/em>\u2026<\/p>\n<h3>Made for storytelling evenings \u2014 and for the classroom<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>M\u2019Bobog\u2019s words<\/strong> \u2014 the old sage accompanies each tale with a short thought.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Difficult words<\/strong> \u2014 terms followed by an asterisk are explained in the glossary (p. 126).<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cDid you know?\u201d<\/strong> (p. 130), and pages of cultural background: social organization, traditional architecture, patterns and symbols.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Specifications<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Publisher: Ultimes Griots Group<\/li>\n<li>1st edition in French<\/li>\n<li>ISBN: 978-2-494551-16-9<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ultimes Griots tales can also be heard in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ultimesgriots.com\/en_US\/kuma\/\">KUMA<\/a>, our app for reading and listening to African tales.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire Special volume of the 54 Tales of Africa collection: one tale per ethnic group, organized by ethnolinguistic group \u2014 Akan, Gur, Kru and Mande. 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