Menlo School Library: African folktales: Project resources

Useful websites

CIA World Factbook
Use the search bar to look for information about your ethnic group.
Internet Sacred Texts Archive
Includes links to collections of African folktales, organized geographically.
World of Tales: African Folktales
Folktale collections in uploaded copies of old books.

ABC-Clio all topics
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Primary source and reference (tertiary) database covering a wide range of topics. Clicking this link will take you to the main search page for all six subtopics.
Britannica Academic
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Encyclopedia Britannica, Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus. Includes World Data Analyst: one page statistical info on individual countries, plus the ability to compare statistics of two countries and to generate ranked statistics on a variety of topics.
Encyclopedia of Africa
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Online access to the five-volume Africana Encyclopedia, revised in 2010.
Oxford Reference
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A large collection of dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference sources.
World Book Encyclopedia
General purpose encyclopedia, including reference overviews, primary sources, and multimedia. Also available in Spanish and French.