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Hard Work
Parables from across Africa that turn on the lesson of hard work.
nigeria · Yoruba
The Lazy Farmer
Two neighbours received the same land, the same rain, and the same seeds. By harvest, only one of them had food in his barn — and the other had a hundred good reasons.
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The Fisherman and the Lake
A Luo fisherman on Lake Victoria is offered a single great fish or a lifetime of small ones. He chooses wrong twice, and the lake has to teach him patiently.
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