The Sequel

Our folktales were carefully created to instill discipline and morals into the listening crowd, what an art? One thing I admire most in the life of our Nna Nna Anyi-fore-fathers was the way they used stories to instill discipline and bring out good character from people. Morality is the core of our value; may be it is no longer obtainable the way it use to be, but then that is the change my society craves for today.

Our tales are full of talking animals which is similar to what I see today in animated movies, which makes me feel that there must be something in this idea of animals talking. For sure animals think and communicate, some even plan and so on and so forth; indeed this make their story interesting as we want to know what they are up to. Many of them feature in most of our stories, while some rarely come up, but not to say that the others are not as relevant as the others. But then, that's just the way it is.

Different animals have peculiar characters that tells a whole lot about them, like the Odum-Lion is about the bravest and the strongest of the whole lot, one might ask me; what about the Enyi-Elephant? Well, he is not the king of the jungle but really, he looks like it. The obere anu-smaller animals like some of the insects are make up for their size with their high organizing skills; they have got the brains, funny.


Now the Mbe-tortoise has a whole lot of stories about it but the most of the stories are pointing at its' cunning character. The interesting part of this been that today, 'human tortoise' are found in every facet of our society. Is it as a result of the stories? Really I do not have the right answer to this.