Mwenye Hadithi

Presents a children's book for early readers about how the hippo came to live in the river instead of on dry land.

Presents a short fable for early readers about how the hyena came to slink about on the African plain.

Tortoise outsmarts Elephant by proving he can jump right over the elephant's "tiny and stupid" head.

Fish eagle is tired of being tricked out of her food by the sneaky hyena and she has no way of stopping him as he could run as fast as the wind. Fish eagle's friend, the clever pangolin, tells her a plan to trick the hyena. The clever trick provides a deserved punishment to the greedy hyena which also explains why hynea can no longer run as fast as the wind across the African plains.

Tortoise outsmarts Elephant by proving he can jump right over the elephant's "tiny and stupid" head.

A lazy and demanding lion orders the animals of his kingdom to build him a house before the Big Rain comes.

When lazy Leopard cannot catch Hare for his dinner, he goes after Baby Baboon instead.

Relates how the animals of the world, once all a dull color, acquired their furs and spots and stripes and horns, and how Zebra's greedy appetite caused him to get his particular coloring.

Relates why the hippopotamus lives in water.

A chameleon bedeviled by a leopard and a crocodile uses his wits to get them to leave him alone.