The Tortoise and the Feast in the Sky — West Africa (Lesser-Known) | Bedtime World Tour
Season Three opens in Igboland, in the south-east of Nigeria, in a year when the rain did not come. Tonight we travel to a tortoise called Mbe, who is the hungriest creature in the country, and who overhears the birds in the tree above him talking about a great feast being given in the sky — for birds only. What Mbe wants is a way up there. What the birds give him is a feather each. And somewhere in the cold middle of a cloud, on the way to the finest table any of them will ever see, he mentions that it is the custom to take a new name for a great occasion.
Igbo tradition (south-eastern…
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