African Folktales

This Children'S Storybook Contains Five African Folktales. The First Story Explains How The Tortoise Got Its Rough Shell. The Animals Had A Summit With The Supreme Being Eke In The Sky. Greed And Lack Of Altruism Cost The Tortoise Dearly As He Crash-Landed Onto The Roof Of His Hut From The Sky. His Broken Shells Were Mended By Snail But The Result Was A Tortoise With Rough Shells. Altruism And Concern For Others Are The Morals Of This Story. The Second Story Which Extols The Pride Of Motherhood Is On The Farmer Who Buried His Mother Alive. Donealot The Successful Farmer Had No Choice Other Than To Bury His Persistently Sick Mother In The Evil Forest At Night With The Help Of His Friend Conscience. The Spirits Of The Evil Forest Brought His Mother Back Home To A Remorseful Son With A Sobering Message You Can Never Do Enough For Your Mother. Encounters Of The Lion And The Tortoise Is The Third Story. In Two Separate Incidents Tortoise Outwits Lion. The Animals That Were On Their Way To Work For Lion Never Got There. Instead Tortoise Intercepted And Entertained Them All Day With His Melodious Music. Wiseone The Youngest Son Of Tortoise Survived A Murder Attempt By Lion. Agunta Lion'S Son Was Killed Instead. Wiseone Returns Home To A Heroic Welcome With A Reminder To All Of Us That Wits Usually Prevail Over Raw Strength And That Slow And Steady Wins The Race. The Story Of The Two Mischievous Brothers Describes How Two Brothers Kofi And Uka Conspired To Swindle People. On Market Days Uka Would Transform Himself Into A Bull And His Brother Kofi Took Him To The Market. Unsuspecting Buyers Would Exchange The Bull For Other Animals. Uka The Bull Escaped From The Buyer And Transformed Himself Back Into A Human Only To Be Resold To Someone Else. The Two Brothers Ran Out Of Luck When Nkume The Buyer With Magical Powers Beat Them To Their Game. The Moral Of The Story Is That It Does Not Pay To Be A Cheat. The Fifth Story Vengeance Of The God Of Jus