Every Child Deserves A Story.
Are you looking for a story to captivate and engage your little ones? Then your search has come to an end. Here at Hadithi Afrika you will find a growing collection of free high quality audio recordings of popular children's stories... all with an African twist.
Don't be selfish! Share with your friends.
Until the lion has his own storyteller the hunter will always have the best stories.
- African Proverb from various countries
Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity.
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Stories matter. They shape our lives, expectations and dreams. they are the warp and weave of our human existence, binding us into a fabric far stronger than any individual element.
- Bascomb James
Stories open up new paths, sometimes send us back to old ones, and close off still others. Telling and listening to stories we too imaginatively walk down those paths - paths of longing, paths of hope, paths of desperation.
- Arthur Kleinman
Latest story
The Cobbler and the Brownies
One good turn deserves another... and then some.
View the full listing of stories.
About
Hadithi is Swahili for story. We are a story-telling company aimed at Africa. Our vision is a world in which every African child grows up having listened to the greatest stories. We want to do this by producing high quality audio recordings and sharing them with the world for free.
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Voice Artist
Hi, I'm Paul! In my previous life, I dabbled in stagecraft and graphic design, trained as an electronics engineer but cut my teeth on DNA sequence analysis. I love programming in Python to write software for scientists. It pains me that our continent lags behind in almost every facet of civilisation. Can stories put an end to that? Over to you...
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License
All recordings are under copyright and are free for personal and educational use only. If you would like to use them for commercial or broadcast purposes please contact us by writing to [email protected].
Voice Artist

Hi, I'm Paul! In my previous life, I dabbled in stagecraft and graphic design, trained as an electronics engineer but cut my teeth on DNA sequence analysis. I love programming in Python to write software for scientists. It pains me that our continent lags behind in almost every facet of civilisation. Can stories put an end to that? Over to you...
License
All recordings are under copyright and are free for personal and educational use only. If you would like to use them for commercial or broadcast purposes please contact us by writing to [email protected].