African Myths

Graphic Mythology

by Gary Jeffrey, Terry Riley (Illustrator)

This beautifully illustrated title introduces readers to the imaginative and exciting world of African mythology. The story of creation from the Yoruba of West Africa, the tale of Anansi the spider from the Ashanti of Ghana, and the Story of the Dog and Jackal from the Bushongo people of Zaire provide suspense, action, and extensive information about the cultures and animals these myths discuss.

Genres: Graphic Novels, Mythology, Africa, Nonfiction

48 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

Reviews

[Angela Michelle · Rating 3 out of 5]

I wish there was more content, but what is inside is interesting. The peoples' faces are kind of funny in that they all look like they are in pain, except the creepy sea goddess - pretty sure I'll have nightmares with her face in them...

[Kyla · Rating 3 out of 5]

An interesting and all-age-friendly introduction to the wide world of African folklore.

[Jan Ayers · Rating 4 out of 5]

Thought I'd check out the nf graphic section in our library to see what should stay. It looks like the graphic format is well suited to covering mythology for the young.

[L M · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really engaging telling of 3 myth stories including the Yoruba creation story and the story of Anansi and the sky god

[Andrew Teperdjian · Rating 5 out of 5]

This 48 paged graphic, in my opinion, is actually very intriguing. Being a fan of Greek mythology, fantasy, and vampire stuff I am open minded to anything that has to do with being of power or creatures with minds of their own. Although It is not about zeus and Poseidon it follows the same format. It generally consisted of three stories. There were two types of gods. The god of the sea and the god of the sky and how they created everything in between. secondly the story of how dogs became mans best friend and finally the clever deceiving spider. Although it is a graphic novel I found it very informative and enjoyable.

It had the right balance between paragraphs and speech bubbles and it kept me interested throughout. The font was perfect unlike other where they are to small or too big, "It was just right." :p There was a nice amount of earthy colours mixed in with smoothly with the water (bluish) colours.

I would recommend this book to all ages especially little kids. It is an entertaining, informative, and fun book. I loved it for my first graphic novel and I could read it again easily.

[Bertin]

It is very interesting and entertaining book about several fictional stories about events that happened in real life but with a twist, in one of the stories it talks about how the earth and man was made the story says a man came from the sky and planted a seed and it grew a lot of land and had clay and formed humans.