In parentheses are the numbers corresponding to the stories taken from each source. Visit Africa.LauraGibbs.net for specific notes and more information about each story.

Basden, George. Among the Ibos of Nigeria. 1921. [56, 59, 159]

Basset, Rene. Moorish Literature. 1901. [93]

Bender, Carl. African Jungle Tales. 1924. [88, 99, 103, 105, 156, 160, 187]

Bleek, Wilhelm. Reynard the Fox in South Africa, or Hottentot Fables and Tales. 1864. [83, 84, 92, 96, 189]

Brown, John Tom. Among the Bantu Nomads. 1926. [23, 37, 61, 163]

Bundy, Richard. “Folk-Tales from Liberia,” Journal of American Folklore, 1919. [6, 15, 29, 31, 64, 80, 81, 82, 107, 115, 118, 121, 128, 142, 148, 153, 174]

Burlin, Natalie. Songs and Tales from the Dark Continent. 1920. [38, 109]

Camphor, Alexander. Missionary Story Sketches. Folk-Lore from Africa. 1909. [10]

Casati, Gaetano. Ten Years in Equatoria. 1891. [25]

Charlton, Lionel. A Hausa Reading Book. 1908. [183]

Cobham, Henry. “Animal Stories from Calabar,” Journal of the Royal African Society. 1905.  [58]

Dornan, Samuel. Pygmies and Bushmen of the Kalahari. 1925. [36]

Dornan, Samuel. The Tati Bushmen and Their Language. 1917. [35, 57, 94, 154, 186]

Driberg, Jack and Robert Coryndon. The Lango: A Nilotic Tribe of Uganda. 1923. [54, 55, 120, 180]

Ellis, George. Negro Culture In West Africa. 1914. [16, 79, 85, 177, 192, 53]

Foulkes, H. D. Angass Manual, Grammar and Vocabulary. 1915. [52]

Hallowell, A. Irving. “Two Folk-Tales from Nyasaland,” Journal of American Folklore. 1922. [164]

Hilton-Simpson, Melville. “Algerian Folktales,” Folklore. 1924. [165, 182]

Holland, Madeleine. “Folklore of the Banyanja,” Folklore. 1916. [45, 101, 167, 172, 175, 176, 178, 179, 184]

Jennings-Bramly, Wilfrid. “Northern Sudan: Bisharin Fables,” Sudan Notes and Records. 1925. [104, 130]

Jones, Daniel and Solomon Plaatje. A Sechuana Reader. 1916. [13]

Lederbogen, Wilhelm and M. Huber. “Duala Fables,” Journal of the Royal African Society. 1904. [169]

Littmann, Enno. Tales, Customs, Names and Dirges of the Tigre Tribes. 1910. [11, 21, 22, 91, 98, 117, 122, 123, 124, 168, 181, 190, 191, 200]

Macdonald, Duff. Africana. 1882. [20]

Madan, Arthur. Kiungani, or Story and History from Central Africa. 1887. [47, 48, 49]

Offodile, Buchi. The Orphan Girl and Other Stories: West African Folk Tales. 2017. [8]

Rattray, R. Sutherland. Hausa Folk-Lore, Customs, Proverbs, etc. 1913. [132]

Roscoe, John. The Bakitara or Banyoro. 1923. [32, 194]

Roscoe, John. The Banyankole. 1923. [18]

Ruskin, Edward. Mongo Proverbs and Fables. 1921. [137, 139]

Schwab, George. “Bulu Folk-Tales,” Journal of American Folklore. 1914. [60, 62, 66, 70, 71, 72, 89, 100, 106, 108, 126, 133, 134, 141, 149, 155]

Schwab, George. “Bulu Folk-Tales,” Journal of American Folklore. 1919. [65, 67, 125, 127, 135, 138, 140, 158]

Schwab, George. “Bulu Folk-Tales,” Journal of American Folklore. 1922. [97]

Sibree, James. The Oratory, Songs, Legends, and Folktales of the Malagasy. 1880. [17, 114, 144, 145, 162, 185, 198]

Smith, Edwin and Andrew Dale. The Ila-Speaking Peoples of Northern Rhodesia. 1920. [1, 3, 5, 12, 14, 24, 39, 40, 41, 42, 44, 50, 51, 90]

Stannus, Hugh. “The Wayao of Nyasaland,” Harvard African Studies. 1922. [27, 46, 151, 152]

Stigand, Chauncy and Nancy Stigand. Black Tales for White Children. 1914. [131]

Stirke, Douglas. Barotseland. 1922. [30, 102, 166, 170, 188, 195]

Taylor, William. Giryama Vocabulary. 1891. [34]

Thomas, Northcote. Anthropological Report on Sierra Leone. 1916. [2, 28, 74, 75, 136, 193, 197]

Thomas, Northcote. Anthropological Report on the Ibo-Speaking Peoples of Nigeria. 1913. [73, 116]

Thomas, Northcote. “Stories from the Awka Neighbourhood IV,” Man, 1918. [199]

Thomas, Northcote. “Thirty-Two Folk-Tales of the Edo-Speaking Peoples of Nigeria,” Folklore. 1920. [63, 68, 69, 129, 173]

Tremearne, Arthur John Newman. “Fifty Hausa Folk-Tales,” Folklore. 1910. [76, 77, 78]

Tremearne, Arthur John Newman. Hausa Superstitions and Customs. 1913. [26, 43, 95, 110, 111, 112, 143, 150, 171]

Weeks, John. Among Congo Cannibals. 1913. [7, 19, 157, 161]

Weeks, John. Congo Life and Jungle Stories. 1924. [4, 86, 87, 146, 147, 196]

Werner, Alice. “Two Galla Legends,” Man. 1913. [9, 33]

Westermann, Gerd. The Shilluk People: Their Language and Folklore. 1912. [119]

Woodward, Herbert. “Bondei Folktales,” Folklore. 1925. [113]