| Tales of Amadou Koumba | |
| Author: | Birago Diop |
| Title Orig: | Les Contes d'Amadou Koumba |
| Orig Lang Code: | fr |
| Country: | Senegal |
| Genre: | Literary fiction |
| Media Type: | Print (hardcover) |
Tales of Amadou Koumba or Les Contes d'Amadou Koumba is a collection of tales from Senegal, transcribed by Birago Diop from the accounts of his family's griot, Amadou Koumba. It was published for the first time in 1947.[1]
This is one of the first significant attempts to put African oral literature into written form. According to Roland Colin, these tales reveal the finest art of the Wolof griots and Birago Diop makes these tales audible to the European reader and the least informed of the "Black African spirit".[2]