Igor's campaign: a Ukrainian landscape Who wrote this story? Nobody knows who wrote the Tale of Igor's Campaign. More Central Asian stories All our Central Asia articles What's it about? [...]
When the Tibetan people formed their first powerful kingdom, in the Middle Ages, they also began to compose epic poetry for the first time, and this is what they wrote. In the [...]
Nobody knows who composed the Book of Dede Korkut, or exactly when, but it was probably composed in Central Asia and then written down in the Ottoman Empire around 1400 AD. In the [...]
Central Asian horses, like in the Alpamysh story When is the Alpamysh from? Nobody knows who composed the Alpamysh, or exactly when, but they probably first sang the Alpamysh in [...]
Djenne clay pot from medieval West Africa Long long ago people didn't know anything. They didn't know how to plant crops, or how to weave clothes, or how to make [...]
Anansi's free dinner: Niger River, West Africa Anansi and the Turtle, continued Well, as time went by, Anansi the spider began to think more and more about how Turtle had [...]
Anansi and the turtle An African story This is an African story about Anansi the spider and Turtle. One day, Anansi the spider picked some yams from his garden. They [...]
Anansi and the wooden baby Aso tells Anansi how to catch a fairy So Anansi climbed back down to earth again to get the fourth creature for Nyame, which was [...]
Anansi catches the leopard Anansi catches the leopard So now Anansi the spider had the snake to give to the god Nyame. But he still needed the other three creatures. So [...]
A West African story Long, long ago, according to this West African story, the sky god Nyame kept all the stories locked up in a wooden box, up high in the sky, [...]
