Mauritania · Folktales and oral traditions
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Mauritania
- Tales
- 2
- Dated records
- 3
- Tales linked to multiple countries
- 0
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Mauritanian storyteller Mamadou Sall sets two tales in distinct landscapes, the desert and the Senegal River. An ant moves grains of sand in one, and a fisherman withdraws to a river island in the other. You can also hear Sall tell the ant’s story in Wolof and French.
Tales in the Atlas
The Ant and King Solomon
2010 · Mamadou Sall / Vincent Farges · La fourmi et le roi Salomon · Éditions des Braques
Undated · Mamadou Sall · Conte-moi · wolof / français
Birama and the Fish Woman
2005 · Mamadou Sall / Claudie Guyennon-Duchêne · La Femme Poisson · Lirabelle
Tales found across countries
No tales linked to multiple countries are listed for this country yet.