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Stories and legends, in which people try to explain the world around them and nature, are passed down by word of mouth throughout Africa. There are many fairy tales and proverbs of the African Teke people from the Bantu group of peoples. In these examples of African folklore, people who had neither education nor science and relied only on their own experience interpreted natural phenomena and animal behaviour in an original way. The tales collected in this book tell us why, for example, elephants have only one baby, why chickens should not live in the same house as humans, why hippos sit in the water all the time, or why a bat is afraid of the sun. These tales are living stories that older people tell to children or adults when they sit down together to rest in the shade under a tree, or on quiet African evenings before going to bed.

I remember from my youth how much joy older people shared with younger people the knowledge they had inherited from their parents, strengthening the eternal bond between generations. The Teke language belongs to the Bantu language family. The Teke language is spoken in the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Gabon. The words of the songs sung by the Leopard and Turach in the fairy tale about the wise Turach are in Lingala, which is said to be the most beautiful African language, as the Teke language has no written language.