Mola Mbua Ndoko: Wisdom and Ways of the Bakweri People

53. “Wooku wo Koondo; mome, metoko; mwaali, metoko” !

In a flock of Koondo; males and females, each grows long feathers at the tail (metoko).

Fables of the Animal World.

It is common knowledge that only male birds grows distinctive long and sometimes decorative and attractive curved feathers (metoko) at the tail, for instance, a cock (moma  wuva). 

Surprisingly every Koondo, male or female, in the family of the bird known as Koondo grows long feathers (metoko) at its tail. Baffled by this peculiar situation, the Chief of Protocol at a Convention of the Animal World (Wolinyama) complained to the Convention as follows:

52. “Mboli ja Gbwe-nyi, na meko me Gbwe-nyi”.

Gbwenyi’s goats and the Gbwenyi’s plantains

 

mboli = a goat.  meeko = fruits of a plantain plant; singular, moko.

Yasi nanu:  Gbwe-nyi  we  Elive made himself a laughing stock  He was an animal farmer. Then he grew some plantain plants in a fence behind his house.  His goats were attracted into the fence by fruits of plantain plants that had fallen on the ground or were hanging close to the ground.

When ever his goats found their way into the fence Gbwe-nyi would drive out the goats and speak to the goats as if the goats were human beings:  Gbwenyi would shout: