Chicken and Millipede are friends who always compete, until a football match that Chicken cannot bear to lose. Like many African animal stories, this one explains a rivalry we can still see today: why chickens and millipedes are enemies.
Read it in Yoruba on Storybooks Nigeria.
Written by Winny Asara; illustrated by Magriet Brink; translated into Yoruba by Ṣẹ́gun Ṣóẹ̀tán. Originally published by the African Storybook.