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West African folklore

a proud leopard with faded paint, bent feathers, and scattered beads – Benga folktale

The Leopard’s Quest for Marriage

African Folktales·Central African Folktales·Equatorial Guinean Folktales

Long ago, when animals lived as people and spoke with voices full of pride, Leopard was the fiercest hunter in the forest. His golden coat was marked with black rosettes that glimmered whenever sunlight touched his back, and his roar echoed through valleys like distant thunder. Every animal feared him, and many admired him from a distance. Yet despite his

Tortoise caught stealing from his father-in-law’s farm, tied to a tree, with villagers watching – West African folktale

African Folktales·Nigerian Folktales·West African Folktales

How Tortoise Won by Losing – A Nigerian Folktale

Tortoise and his wife lived in a small hut at the edge of the village. Times were hard, and their storehouse was empty. Not a yam, not a grain of corn, not even a dried pepper remained to cook. Hunger gnawed at them day and night until Tortoise decided to