Friends in Famine: A Bemba Folktale (Zambia)
In the long-ago days of hardship, when rains failed and famine tightened its grip upon the land, there lived two inseparable companions named Awumbi and Mwawumbi. These men were known across the village as the laziest of all. They never lifted hoes to till the gardens nor bent their backs to plant. Instead, they survived by setting traps in the
