Folktales on Education

This collection brings together Ghanaian folktales with educational, moral and didactic messages, drawn from research projects on African oral traditions, Indigenous Knowledge Systems, popular culture, gender, social inclusion and sustainable development.
It began with 65 Kusaal folktales documented in the Kusaug traditional area of the Upper East Region under the University of Ghana's BANGA-Africa Project III Seed Research Grant, Documenting the Folktales of Kusaal through Stories and Illustrations, funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. It was later expanded through the Sustainable Environmental Education and Climate Activism through Popular Culture (SEECAP) Project, and further enriched by Kusaal folktales from the Africa-UniNet project on Sustainable Gender Equality, Diversity and Social Inclusion Education through Oral Narratives in Mabia Cultures of Ghana (S-GEDSI); stories from S-GEDSII are placed here or under Gender and Environment according to their dominant theme.
The folktales in this section deal with wisdom, obedience, hard work, greed, responsibility, respect and cooperation, illustrating the longstanding role of African storytelling in moral education and the intergenerational transmission of values. The collection serves children, teachers, students, researchers and the general public, and contributes to preserving Ghana's oral literature and Indigenous knowledge.