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a young chief’s son holding a broken wooden bowl as rice spills to the ground, with villagers watching in sorrow

The Chief’s Son and the Magic Rice

Long ago in the green hills of Liberia, where the Kpelle people tilled the earth and shared the fruits of their labor, there lived a great chief who ruled a prosperous village. His people respected him for his wisdom and kindness, and they worked together to store food for times of need. The chief had one son, a young man
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