Volume 50, Number 20 · December 18, 2003
Into the Woods
By Kwame Anthony Appiah
Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales
edited by Nelson Mandela
Norton, 143 pp., $24.95
Once upon a time, in a town far away, there lived a boy named Kwame, his sister, Ama, their mother and father, a nanny called Yaa, a cook called Yaro, and two cats who were much too wild to have names and who came and went as they pleased. Every evening, after Yaro had made them a delicious supper, Yaa would help the little boy and his sister to bathe and brush their teeth. Then, on some special evenings, after the children had said good night to the cats, they settled at their father's feet in the drawing room and waited for him to tell them a story.
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