Degder and the Five Sisters: A Somali Folktale that Teaches Forgiveness
Long ago, in the wide sun-baked lands of Somalia where acacia trees cast their thin shadows and camels groaned in the thorny bush, there lived two brothers. One had five sons, the other five daughters. Both men were widowers, and in time they married again. The second brother’s new wife, however, grew bitter. She despised her husband’s daughters, quarreled endlessly,
