Nelson Mandela's favorite African folktales.
Presents 22 tales, chiefly from South Africa and other countries in sub-Saharan Africa, as written and told or retold by various authors, and compiled by Nelson Mandela. Some include incidental music by Johnny Clegg or Vusi Mahlasela; five tracks at the end of disc 3 are short songs, some drawn from...
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Table of Contents:
- disc 1. Message from Archbishop Desmond Tutu (3:03)
- Ring of the king (Mythical African kingdom) / Jay Heale (read by Alan Rickman) (11:35)
- Asmodeus and the bottler of djinns (South African English) / Alex D'angelo (read by Whoopi Goldberg) (15:02)
- Mpipidi and the motlopi tree (Botswana) / Johanna Morule (read by Matt Damon) (8:40)
- Natiki (Namaqualand, South Africa) / Glaudien Kotzé (read by Parminder Nagra) (4:38)
- Mantis and the moon (San, Southern Africa) / Marguerite Poland (read by Forest Whitaker) (7:47)
- How Hlakanyana outwitted the monster (Nguni, South Africa) / Jack Cope (read by Sean Hayes) (7:03)
- Message (Namibia) / George Weideman (read by Charlize Theron) (6:41)
- Wolf queen (Cape Malay) / I.D. du Plessis (read by Benjamin Bratt) (8:14)
- Musical interlude (:08).
- disc 2. Snake chief (West Africa/Zululand, South Africa) / Diana Pitcher (read by Scarlett Johansson) (6:27)
- King Lion's gifts (Khoi, Southern Africa) / Pieter W. Grobbelaar (read by Ricardo Chavira) (9:40)
- Words as sweet as honey from Sankhambi (Venda, South Africa) / Linda Rode (read by Debra Messing) (4:33)
- Sakunaka, the handsome young man (Zimbabwe) / Hugh Tracey (read by LaTanya Richardson Jackson) (6:32)
- Wolf and jackal and the barrel of butter (Cape Dutch) / Pieter W. Grobbelaar (read by Hugh Jackman) (7:48)
- Guardian of the pool (Central Africa/Zululand, South Africa) / Diana Pitcher (read by Gillian Anderson) (5:46)
- Sannie Langtand and the visitor (South African English) / Alex D'angelo (read by CCH Pounder) (22:23)
- Sultan's daughter (Cape Malay) / I.D. du Plessis (read by Blair Underwood) (15:25).
- disc 3. Van Hunks and the Devil (Cape Dutch) / Annari van der Merwe (read by LeVar Burton) (8:54)
- Clever snake charmer (Morocco) (read by Samuel L. Jackson) (5:18)
- Enchanting song of the magical bird (Tanzania) / Julius Oelke (read by Jurnee Smollett) (6:11)
- Hare and the tree spirit (Xhosa, South Africa) / Phyllis Savory (read by Sophie Okonedo) (5:26)
- Mother who turned to dust (Malawi) / Kasiya Makaka Phiri (read by Helen Mirren) (17:35)
- Fesito goes to market (Uganda) / Cicely Van Straten (read by Don Cheadle) (15:53).