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Sepia folktale scene of Kenkebe fleeing a rolling boulder as his wife and son push it toward him at dawn, set in a famine-stricken valley with a hidden cave.

Kenkebe,The Selfish Man: A Traditional Xhosa Myth from South Africa

In the days when the great famine swept across the land, the people suffered terribly. The crops had withered in the fields, leaving families desperate for anything they could find to fill their empty stomachs. They dug frantically in the hard earth for insects, scraped together bitter weeds, and pulled up stringy roots anything to keep themselves alive through those
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