A Nigerian Folktale of Abundance, Greed, and the Cost of Wastefulness Long ago—before the first iron was forged in the...
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A Nigerian Folktale of Abundance, Greed, and the Cost of Wastefulness Long ago—before the first iron was forged in the...
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A Nigerian Folktale of Abundance, Greed, and the Cost of Wastefulness Long ago—before the first iron was forged in the fires of Nok, before the kingdoms of Ife and Benin carved their legacies into bronze—there was a time in the lands that would one day be called Nigeria when the sky did not loom high and distant above humanity. It rested close. So close that a tall woman standing on her toes could pluck a piece of it with her fingers. And the sky was not empty. It was food. In those ancient days, the sky hung low over the...
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