The Dog and the Tortoise

ebook The Village Moonlight Tales

By Kenn-Jones Shakespeare Njoku

cover image of The Dog and the Tortoise

Sign up to save your library

With an OverDrive account, you can save your favorite libraries for at-a-glance information about availability. Find out more about OverDrive accounts.

   Not today

Find this title in Libby, the library reading app by OverDrive.

Download Libby on the App Store Download Libby on Google Play

Search for a digital library with this title

Title found at these libraries:

Library Name Distance
Loading...

Back in the primordial times when men and animals cohabited together in the forest farm land of the Etimekpo, Nze Akachi commanded authority there. He was the great grand son of Noah, of Set and Adam and was born at Nri where the River Niger traveled all the way from rhe Futa Jallon Island mountains to wet his vast land.

Everyone dwelt in peace until just one day when evil broke out in the land. The locust landed in an avalnche, the chief priest is summoned by the gods, his only son dies. He too dies afterwards. The people are banished from their ancestral land.

Nze Akachi graces the Ibo traditional rite for the eating of the cola nut and while they crush the meet thereof with the ngwongwo and ose oji, the Old Wise One weaves his delicious story.

In their new home in the land of the Ibibios, the dog eating tribe, the farmine was severe. People and animals were dying on daily basis. In the midst of all this, Nkita cuts a sustainable life for himself provoking Mbe to envy. Mbe plots to kill him and he watches Nkita turn out ravishingly on daily basis. Mbe beats him and takes his place in heaven. Nkita upon returning to earth Marry's his mother and grandmother because of the curse he had attracted to his lineage.

Mbe returns to earth in the midst of a tumultuous rage against him. Shattered, he falls into coma for 14 days and then comes to. He murders his healer upon his total recovery.

Nze Akachi weaves his delicious tales under the moonlight while the Moon face girl is decorated with an award. Chukwu Abiama is pleased with humanity and sends them rain. And while the animals and humans go back to their abodes, the Moon and five stars croon an Etimekpo lullaby for all the humans.

And as they returned back to their old land after four hundred years of sojourn, hand in hand, Ozonna and his jolly best friend stare endlessly at the sprouts of almost lemon green plants which they both planted two weeks before in her father's orchard. That was the first cultivation in the new land.

The Dog and the Tortoise