1. Mufaros’s Beautiful Daughters
• Mufaro’s Beautiful
Daughters is an
African folktale.

2. The Author is John Steptoe

3. Main Characters and Secondary
Characters
Main Characters
Manyara
Nyasha
Mufaro
Secondary Characters
The king
The little boy
The old lady
The snake

4. Setting
•A small village in Africa
•And the forest

5. Problem
Manyara keeps being mean to her sister Nyasha
because she wants to be the queen.
And Manyara escapes from the village because
she was mad and wanted to be the queen.

6. Solution
•The solution is that Manyara runs out of the forest
and they find her.
• Manyara stops being mean to her sister because
Nyasha is the queen.

7. The students who read this book
Monserath
Alin
Daniel R.

8. Our Favorite Parts
Monserath’s: My favorite part is when Nyasha
gets married.
Alin’s: My favorite part is when Manyara gives
food to the little boy
Daniel R.’s: My favorite part is when the king
turns himself into a snake, a little boy, and an old
lady.