Jamal is a bit dumb but well intentioned. One day all the fruit trees dried up and everyone longs for fruit. His sister, Tiara, finds an great avacado tree standing by itself which bunches of avacados. She wacks the tree with a big stick several times and avacados fall down. She gathers them and goes home. Jamal tries to do the same but instead of a stick he rams a car into it, knocking the tree down and ruining everything.
Another time, he tells a lizard his best secret. Shortly after he asks the lizard if he has told everyone his own secret and the lizard, as lizards do, bobs it head up and down. He thinks this means the lizard has told and tries to kill the lizard for it but the lizard gets away. He swears revenge on the creature.
the third story has yet to be worked out. I'll come up with it over the next day.
(Crashed car, source)
West African Folktales by multiple authors
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