Evidence type: Oral tradition
A family of children made of wax do all their work at night, for the sun would melt them. One brother longs for the daylight, and goes out against his brothers’ warnings; what they do next turns grief into song. This Southern African folktale has been retold across the continent.
Read it, and listen to it in Kiswahili, on Storybooks Kenya.
A Southern African folktale; illustrated by Wiehan de Jager; translated into Kiswahili by Mutugi Kamundi; read by Lauwo George. Originally published by the African Storybook.