Folk Tales of South Africa, Part 1

Podcast: KacheliTV · KacheliTV

Opublikowano: 2026-10-25

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Folk Tales of South Africa, Part 1 — three tales from "Kaffir Folk-Lore" (1886) by the Rev. George McCall Theal, who collected them from Xhosa storytellers in the Eastern Cape and printed the tales in English as he heard them. Our telling follows Theal's text throughout. The word in his book's title is a period term that was already an insult and is a grave slur today; it appears nowhere in this episode, and the tales are billed, simply and accurately, as...