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Kanta, Abdoua (Text) / Boubacar, Boureima (Illustration)

Lelee, das Hirtenmädchen

A West African story from the Fulbe people

Translated from French by Annelies Burckhardt and Anna Katharina Ulrich
© 1994 Nagel & Kimche, Zürich, 1995, 1997
124 pages
Ages 10 and up

Lelee is 11 rain seasons old and has never seen her father. And her mother is not allowed to care for her because that is the traditional way among the West African Fula, and grandmother is strict: Lelee must grow up as an exemplary young woman.

Original edition: »Halimatou« © 1987 by EDICEF (Text), Vauves

out of print