The threads
Every thread, one shelf
The belief systems of the continent, told thread by thread — from creation stories to the traditions that crossed the Atlantic. Pick what you're curious about, or start at Origins and follow the sequence.
Literature
Àbíkú and Ịgbanje: African Folklore in Contemporary Storytelling, and the Label That Almost Explained It Away
Okagbue Uyanwa digs beside the orange tree while the compound watches. Ezinma, nine years old, has led the men down toward the stream and back again, in no hurry, and then pointed at the ground.
Folklore
Magical Realism, Abiku, and Ogbanje: African Folklore in Contemporary Storytelling
In most bookshops, Ben Okri's The Famished Road sits a shelf or two from One Hundred Years of Solitude, filed under the same two words: magical realism.
Not sure where to start?
Begin at Origins. Every other thread makes more sense once you know how each people says the world began.