How Fly’s Boast Spread Panic and Crocodile’s Greed Brought Death: An Equatorial Guinea Folktale
One morning, Adder went to bathe, enjoying the cool water before returning to anoint his body with rich nyimba oil, pressed from bamboo-palm nuts. Gleaming with the sheen of the oil, he slithered out onto the branch of a cayenne-pepper bush, warming himself in the sun. But his peace did not last. Soon, Fly appeared, buzzing about restlessly until he
