Outa Karel’s Stories: South African Folk-Lore Tales

About this film

LibriVox recording of Outa Karel’s Stories: South African Folk-Lore Tales by Sanni Metelerkamp. Read in English by NoelBadrian Sanni Metelerkamp was a South African playwright and author born in 1867. She is well known for her biography of her great-grandfather, George Rex, the British born entrepreneur who founded the town of Knysna and was rumoured to have been an illegitimate son of King George III. Possibly her greatest legacy however is the publication of a collection of folk tales which in her own words "… are the common property of every country child in South Africa." By the time she published "Outa Karel’s Stories: South African Folk-Lore Tales" in 1914, South Africa had come through a time of great turmoil. There had been years of conflict between the Boer settlers, the Zulus and the British. The arrival of peoples from all over the world seeking gold and diamonds together with the advent of the railroads, was opening up the country and changing society. Sanni was afraid that many of the old traditions and stories would be lost and so set down these few for posterity. She also stated " I greatly regret that (the stories) appear here in what is, to them, a foreign tongue.…

Directors & creators

Sanni Metelerkamp

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks;South Africa; animal stories; folk lore

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