Folktales from South of Mauritania

A partridge dares to answer an elephant. A genie steals a man's wife. A sage carries iron in his hands and wisdom in his tongue. These are not gentle bedtime stories — they are the living breath of Fuuta Tooro, a land straddling the southern edge of Mauritania where history and legend long ago agreed to share the same voice.Mouhamad Dieng gathers eleven tales and legends from this region's oral tr...