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Mbeku logo #10101) African fairy tale 2) Fictional turtle
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Mbeku

Mbeku logo #21000 Mbeku (from the Igbo word for tortoise) is the trickster tortoise in Igbo and West African folktale. ==Tales== In one aetiological tale Mbeku gets taken by the birds to a feast in the sky. When he eats all the food, the birds stop him from flying back to the earth, and he falls, which is how the tortoises got the patterns on their shells. In an Ig...
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