Sade and The Golden Shoe

Sade and The Shoe is a new Nigerian folktale. Sade the heroine saves her village from the curse of a golden shoe found by her father in a nearby magic lake. The story uses the influences of traditional West African storytelling along with customary cadences to weave this tale of a little girls adventure and that of her unlikely best friend the village mosquito. The story is similar to the famed Aesops fables and includes a moral that uses animals as significant figures to relate the message of the story.