AFRO-INDIGENOUS FOLKLORE

Myths, Legends, and the Wisdom of Ancestors

Can’t Classify This
Lamont Pearley Lamont Pearley

Can’t Classify This

A little boy had read numerous stories in his children's books about different life and death struggles between a Man and a Lion. But no matter how ferociously the lion fought, the Man emerged victoriously every time. Puzzled, the boy asked his father: "Why is it, Daddy, that the Man always beats the Lion, when everybody knows that a lion is the toughest cat in all the jungle?" The father answered, "Son, those stories will always end that way…until lions learn how to

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