Begin with African/Introduction to African Traditions for the shelf's scope and cautions.

Quick Paths

Yoruba and West Africa

• African/Yoruba and Ife/Myths of Ife
• African/Yoruba and Ife/Yoruba Legends
• African/Yoruba and Ife/The Yoruba-Speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa
• African/West African Traditions/Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria
• African/West African Traditions/Hausa Folk-lore

Bantu, Congo, and Southern Africa

• African/Central African and Bantu Traditions/Myths and Legends of the Bantu
• African/Central African and Bantu Traditions/Notes on the Folklore of the Fjort
• African/Southern African Traditions/The Religious System of the Amazulu
• African/Southern African Traditions/Specimens of Bushman Folklore
• African/Southern African Traditions/South-African Folk-tales

African Diaspora and Atlantic Traditions

• African/African Diaspora and Atlantic Traditions/Jamaica Anansi Stories
• African/African Diaspora and Atlantic Traditions/Psychic Phenomena of Jamaica
• African/African Diaspora and Atlantic Traditions/Voodoos and Obeahs
• African/African Diaspora and Atlantic Traditions/The Last of the Voudoos
• African/African Diaspora and Atlantic Traditions/Drums and Shadows

History and Comparative Religion

• African/General History and Comparative Religion/The Negro
• African/General History and Comparative Religion/Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire
• African/General History and Comparative Religion/Animism — George William Gilmore

Reading Notes

When a text uses older racial or colonial language, keep the historical distance visible. The value of the archive is not that every collector was fair; the value is that songs, stories, terms, rituals, and testimonies survived in forms readers can now compare, criticize, and recover.

For terms, see African Glossary, a shelf-specific slice of the central Good Works Glossary.