Folktale: The Singing Tortoise
A gentle animal tale about Timba, a shy tortoise with a beautiful voice, and a proud lion who learned that greatness does not always look strong.
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Folktale: 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 hat, and why tortoises are bald to this day.
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Folktale: 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 “All of You”, and ended up with a cracked shell.
