From: trap@necrotheque.demon.co.uk   
      
   Recently, a script from Matt Probert arrived, in which they said:   
      
   : Looking for information regarding aboriginal mythology from the   
   : continent of Africa. Preferably first hand accounts.   
   :   
   : Anyone familiar with any English language resources?   
      
   /Tales of an Ashanti Father/ by Peggy Appiah is very good: I can   
   testify that even with the tribal differences between the Ashante   
   stories and the Mamprusi ones, she's faithfully retold the   
   mythology in English.   
      
   The problem with the question your asking is scope. 'Aboriginal   
   mythology from Africa' is a *HUGE* scope, which technically   
   includes the entire body of kemetic and Egyptological mythology   
   as well as the Khufu and Sudanese, Ethiopian, Libyan, Bedou, Morrocan,   
   West African, Bantu, Masai, Bushman, coast and so on cultures. There's   
   some 5000 years of oral tradition in some 70 or 80 thousand cultural   
   groups and periods included here.   
      
   I suspect you mean 'black africa', ie. Sub-saharan, but even then, the   
   range of cultures, stories and mythological or theological diversity is   
   absolutely vast.   
      
   What exactly were you looking for?   
      
   ~R   
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