MYTHS OF ORIGIN, DEATH AND THE AFTERLIFE: The creation of the universe
The gods descend from the sky
Why the sun and the moon live in the sky
Why the moon waxes and wanes
The prince who insisted on possessing the moon
The girl of the early race, who made stars
The story of the lightning and the thunder
How death first entered the world
Wanjiru, sacrificed by her family
The chameleon (how death came into the world)
The man who would shoot Iruwa
The daughter of the sun and moon
How a girl reached the land of the ghosts and came back
Nunda the Slayer and the origin of the One-eyed
Why dead people are buried
The king and the ju ju tree
How cannibals drove the people from Insofan
Mountain to the Cross River (Ikom)
ANIMAL STORIES & FABLES: How Anansi became a spider
Anansi obtains the Sky-God's stories
Tortoise and the wisdom of the world
The tortoise and the baboon
Tortoise and the hot-water test
The tortoise and the elephant
Tortoises hunting ostriches
The tortoise with a pretty daughter
The leopard, the squirrel and the tortoise
The leopard, the tortoise, and the bush rat
The tortoise and the monitor lizard
How the tortoise overcame the elephant and the hippopotamus
The elephant and the tortoise; or, Why worms are blind and why elephant has small eyes
Why the worms live underneath the ground
How the leopard got his spots
Gihilihili: the snake-man
The story of the hunters and the big snake
How Ra-Molo became a snake
The maid and her snake-lover
The ape, the snake and the lion
The physician's son and the king of the snakes
The goat, the lion and the serpent
How the dog came to live with man
The story of Kitinda and her wise dog
The legend of the leopardess and her two servants, dog and jackal
The truth about cock's comb
The tiger, the ram and the jackal
The trapper, the lion and the hare
The hyaena [hyena] and the moonbeam
The jackal, the hare and the cock
The lion, the jackal and the man
The hunt of lion and jackal
The lion, the hyena and the hare
The lion, the hyena and the rabbit
How a hunter obtained money from his friend
The leopard, goat, bush cat and cock, and how he got out of repaying them
Why the bat flies by night
Why the bat is ashamed to be seen in the daytime
The woman, the ape and the child
The fish and the leopard's wife; or, Why the fish lives in the water
Why the flies bother the cows
Why the bush cow and the elephant are bad friends
The affair of the hippopotamus and the tortoise; or, Why the Hippopotamus lives in the water
Why a hawk kills chickens
The king and the nsiat bird
Concerning the hawk and the owl
The nsasak bird and the odudu bird
The election of the king bird
The lioness and the ostrich
Lion who thought himself wiser than his mother
Lion who took a woman's shape
The man who found a lion in a cave
The young man of the ancient race, who was carried off by a lion when asleep in the field
Why has jackal a long black stripe on his back?
The elephant and the lion
The monkey, the shark and the washerman's donkey
The legend of the cunning terrapin and the crane
The legend of Kibatti the little who conquered all the great animals
The partnership of rabbit and elephant, and what came of it
The boy Kinneneh and the gorilla
The hare, the hyena and the pot of beans
The hare, the hyena and the roasted guinea fowl
The hyena kills the hare's mother
The hare overcomes both rhino and hippo
The shrew-mouse helps the man
The mantis assumes the form of a hartebeest
Gaunu-tsaxau, the baboons and the mantis
The mason wasp and his wife
The vultures, their elder sister, and her husband
STORIES OF WIT & WISDOM: The rich man and the poor man
How Walukaga answered the king
The young man and the skull
The girls who wanted new teeth
The village maiden and the cannibal
Morena-Y-A-Letsatsi, or the Sun Chief
The woodcutter and his donkey
The story of Kibaraka and the bird
The poor man and his wife of wood
A man and his mother-in-law
The tale of the merchant and his bag of gold
Ituen and the King's wife
Of the pretty stranger who killed the king
The disobedient daughter who married a skull
The king who married the cock's daughter
The cock who caused a fight between two towns
Of the fat woman who melted away
Of the pretty girl and the seven jealous women
The orphan boy and the magic stone
The slave girl who tried to kill her mistress
The fate of Essido and his evil companions
The story of the drummer and the alligators
Mkaaah Jeechonee, the boy hunter
The magician and the sultan's son
King Gumbi and his lost daughter
How Kimyera became king of Uganda
The search for the home of the sun
Out of the mouths of babes
Sudika-Mbambi the Invincible
Kachirambe of the Anyanja
Mbega, a child of ill omen
Hlakanyana's precocious development and mischievous pranks
The children and the Zimwi
The girl who married a lion
Khodumodumo, or, Kammapa, the swallowing monster
Untombinde and the squatting monster