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AJANTALA: THE DEMON CHILD | A YORÙBÁ FOLKTALE
‘My name is Ajantala,’ he said to all of them, when it was time to give him a name. Now when the food for the feast was being cooked in the kitchen Ajantala had ceaselessly complained. -
THE CRACKED POT: A MOTIVATING SHORT STORY
SHARE THIS POST: An elderly woman had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a pole which she carried across her shoulders. One of the pots had a crack in it while the other was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water. At the end of the long walk from the stream ... -
THE STORY OF THE DRUMMER AND THE ALLIGATORS
SHARE THIS POST:AFRICAN FOLKTALE: THE STORY OF THE DRUMMER AND THE ALLIGATORS THERE was once a woman named Aftiong who lived at ‘Nsidung, a small town to the south of Calabar. She was married to a chief of Hensham Town called Etim Ekeng. They had lived together for several years, but had no children. The ... -
AFRICAN FOLKTALE: THE TORTOISE AND THE LIZARD
SHARE THIS POST:Once upon a time there was a famine in the land of the animals. One day, the lizard was passing by a farm when he saw the farmer approach a rock. The lizard hid and watched as the farmer rolled the rock away to reveal the entrance into a cave. The farmer went ... -
WHY THE CAT KILLS RATS; AN AFRICAN FOLKTALE
SHARE THIS POST:WHY THE CAT KILLS RATS; AN AFRICAN FOLKTALE ANSA was King of Calabar for fifty years. He had a very faithful cat as a housekeeper, and a rat was his house-boy. The king was an obstinate, headstrong man, but was very fond of the cat, who had been in his store for many ... -
AFRICAN FOLKTALE: THE LIGHTNING AND THE THUNDER
SHARE THIS POST: IN the olden days the thunder and lightning lived on the earth amongst all the other people, but the king made them live at the far end of the town, as far as possible from other people’s houses. The thunder was an old mother sheep, and the lightning was her son, a ... -
AN INTERESTING AFRICAN FOLKTALE: “THE WOMAN, THE APE, AND THE CHILD”
SHARE THIS POST: OKUN ARCHIBONG was one of King Archibong’s slaves, and lived on a farm near Calabar. He was a hunter, and used to kill bush buck and other kinds of antelopes and many monkeys. The skins he used to dry in the sun , and when they were properly cured, he used to ... -
THE GIANT WARRIOR – PRINCE ARHUANRAN OF BENIN KINGDOM
SHARE THIS POST: During the reign of Oba Ozolua (1481 – 1504), two of his wives, Oloi Idia and Oloi Ohonmi, gave birth on the same day. They both had sons. Oloi Ohomi gave birth in the morning to the first son and he was named Idubor, who was fondly called Aruanran (sometimes spelt Arhuanran). ... -
THE DISOBEDIENT DAUGHTER WHO MARRIED A SKULL
SHARE THIS POST: EFFIONG Edem was a native of Cobham Town. He had a very fine daughter, whose name was Afiong. All the young men in the country wanted to marry her on account of her beauty; but she refused all offers of marriage in spite of repeated entreaties from her parents, as she was ... -
THE ORPHAN BOY AND THE MAGIC STONE
SHARE THIS POST: A CHIEF of Inde named Inkita had a son named Ayong Kita, whose mother had died at his birth. The old chief was a hunter, and used to take his son out with him when he went into the bush. He used to do most of his hunting in the long grass ...
