The Sacred Door and Other Stories

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The Sacred Door and Other Stories: Cameroon Folktales of the Beba" offers readers a selection of folktales infused with riddles, proverbs, songs, myths, and legends, using various narrative techniques that capture the vibrancy of Beba oral traditions. Makuchi retells the stories that she heard at home when she was growing up in her nativeCameroon. The collection of thirty-three folktales of the Beba showcases a wide variety of stories that capture the richness and complexities of an agrarian society's oral literature and traditions. These tales reinforce the commonalities of our human experiences without discounting our differences.