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Share your storyFolktale: The Lion and the Wise Hare
A classic African tale about a cruel lion who demanded an animal every day, and the small, clever hare who tricked him with his own reflection.
Oct 23, 2026 · 1 min readFolktale: Hare, Hyena and the Well
A trickster tale about clever Hare and greedy Hyena, who kept drinking all the water from the shared well, and…
Oct 23, 2026 · 1 min readFolktale: The Honeyguide’s Revenge
A Zulu folktale about Gingile, a greedy young hunter who refused to share honey with the honeyguide bird, and the…
Oct 23, 2026 · 1 min readFolktale: The Magic Calabash
A West African-style tale about a generous farmer, a calabash that gives food to those who share, and a greedy…
Oct 23, 2026 · 2 min readFolktale: The Lion’s Whisker
An Ethiopian folktale about a woman who must pluck a whisker from a living lion, and what it teaches about…
Oct 23, 2026 · 2 min readFolktale: The Talking Skull
A famous West African folktale about a hunter who finds a skull that speaks, the king who does not believe…
Oct 23, 2026 · 1 min readFolktale: The Boy and the Talking Drum
A Yoruba-inspired tale about young Kunle, his grandfather's sacred talking drum (dundun), and the day he learned that words carry…
Oct 23, 2026 · 1 min readThe Epic of Mwindo: The Hero Born Walking
A retelling of the Mwindo epic of the Nyanga people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo: the hero born…
Oct 23, 2026 · 2 min readFolktale: The Singing Tortoise
A gentle animal tale about Timba, a shy tortoise with a beautiful voice, and a proud lion who learned that…
Oct 23, 2026 · 2 min readFolktale: Why Tortoise Has No Hair
A Yoruba folktale about Ijapa the tortoise, a pot of hot yam porridge and a stolen meal hidden under his…
Oct 23, 2026 · 1 min readFolktale: The Tortoise and the Birds (Why Tortoise’s Shell Is Cracked)
The classic West African folktale of how greedy Tortoise borrowed feathers to attend a feast in the sky, named himself…
Oct 23, 2026 · 2 min read