23/07/2024
The Gwo Gwo Gwo Ngwo Challenge: A Tale of Wit and Triumph
In the classic folktale by Mike Ejiagha, a clever tortoise outsmarts other animals to win the king's daughter's hand in marriage. The king had decreed that any animal that could bring a massive creature like an elephant or cow to the feast in tether would win his daughter's hand.
While other animals struggled to subdue the mighty elephant, the tortoise devised a cunning plan. He approached the elephant and deceived him into believing that the king had chosen him to chair the occasion. The tortoise offered to es**rt the elephant to the ceremony, pretending to be frail and old.
As they journeyed together, the tortoise convinced the elephant to let him ride on his back. He then requested a rope around the elephant's neck, supposedly to prevent himself from falling off. The unsuspecting elephant agreed.
Upon arriving at the feast, the tortoise climbed down, seized the rope, and presented the tethered elephant to the king. The king, impressed by the tortoise's ingenuity, granted him his daughter's hand in marriage.
The story celebrates the triumph of intellectual prowess over brute strength, as embodied by the tortoise's cleverness and the elephant's massive size, symbolized by the "gwo gwo gwo ngwo" sound, representing the elephant's heavy movements.
