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Illustration of animals receiving horns while zebra grazes, from a traditional Bemba folktale in Zambia.

Why the Zebra Remained Hornless: A Bemba Folktale from Zambia

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Long ago, when animals still gathered in great councils and spoke to one another with wisdom and fear, they faced a problem that weighed heavily on their minds. The grass-eating creatures of the wilderness, zebra, antelope, buffalo, and many more, were constantly hunted by lions, leopards, and other flesh-eaters. Tired of falling prey to their predators, they decided to meet
Eland leaps across glowing desert plain under African sky, trailed by hunters and animals

Why the Eland Runs Swiftly

Gather round, people of the veld, gather round, Listen to the tale of Kung the Eland, Listen to the story of how swiftness came, To the sacred one who bears the ancient name… Long, long ago, when the world was still learning its ways and the animals were settling into

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