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Mbeku, the greedy tortoise, gets himself invited to the banquet in Skyland, but is trapped with no way to get back to Earth in this Igbo tale of why the tortoise has a checkered shell.
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2 editions- Other · English · 1994Clarion Books · 1 pages · 9780395688458
- Other · English · 1994Oxford University Press · 32 pages · 9780195409901
LegendsTurtlesTalesIgbo (African people)FolkloreJuvenile literatureTurtles, fictionChildren's fiction