African Tales and Myths
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While trying to gather up all the wisdom he thinks he has wasted on the villagers, Ananse the spider learns something new himself.
In order to have light, Kwian and the other children throw another villager, the lazy Kattenttu, into the sky where he becomes the sun.
A frog repays Wanyana's kindness by helping her pick the right man to be her husband.
While seeking the village of Chief Kotombo, Tamba offers aid to the animals he meets along the way, and later they return his kindness, enabling him to marry the chief's daughter.
While out walking with his brother Cikungwa, blind Zimani has an encounter with Mkango the lion and tries to trick him before he has a chance to kill them.
A Masai folktale about how the tiny caterpillar outsmarts the other animals even though they are much bigger and stronger.