Alice Werner offers a comprehensive anthology of traditional folktales, myths and cultural narratives drawn from various Bantu-speaking peoples of southern Africa. She discusses creation myths, hero-tales, animal fables, supernatural stories, witch doctors, and much more, organized geographically, and with contextual commentary. Bantu is the generally accepted name for those natives of South Africa (the great majority) who are neither Hottentots nor Bushmen - that is to say, mainly the Zulus, Xosas, Basuto, and Bechuana - to whom may be added the Thongas (Shangaans) of the Delagoa Bay region and the people of Southern Rhodesia, commonly, though incorrectly, called Mashona.