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Parchment-style drawing of Njaku and Koho’s encounter; African folktale about pride and fatal envy.

Njaku the Elephant and Koho the Parrot

In the distant days when witchcraft still held sway over the land and the customs of the ancestors governed every aspect of life, there lived in separate but neighboring territories two prominent figures who would become entangled in a tale of tragic misunderstanding. This was a time when death was never accepted as natural, and every passing required careful investigation

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