## Introduction  
Studies of the prolonged cultural contacts between Africa and the Americas reveal the strong contribution of African languages and their poetic manifestations, such as singing and short stories, to the formation of different African-American cultures. We know that thousands of Africans, predominantly the Bantu-speaking and Yoruba-speaking peoples, were enslaved and transported to Brazil. Here, we focus on oral tales, in a comparative perspective, looking for relationships between texts, hypertextualities, or points of contact between oral narratives recorded in books, in Angola and in Brazil. A number of pioneer researchers in the collection of oral narratives (such as Héli Chatelain and Ladislau Batalha for short stories in the Kimbundu language in Angola, and Sílvio Romero, Alexina de Magalhães Pinto, Lindolfo Gomes and João da Silva Campos for short stories in Bantuized Portuguese in Brazil) have been prominent in establishing the presence of traces of Bantu languages and cultures. When compared, these tales reveal processes of transculturation and of dialogue between cultures and languages: Bantu and Latin peoples, African languages and Portuguese, oral and written. From an editorial point of view, since the first records were written in Europe there has been a tendency to treat oral tales as children's literature, publishing collections with a small number of short stories, an adapted plot, simplified vocabulary, and many  
illustrations. This trend has been accentuated in Brazil in recent years with the growth of the production of children's books edited from oral narratives of African origin, especially after the introduction of Law 10.639 of 2003, which makes the teaching of Afro-Brazilian history and culture mandatory in Brazilian in schools.