Short African Folktale of Love and Marriage
Short African Folktale of Love and Marriage
Short African Folktale of Love and Marriage
Marriage of Tau and Oni African Folktale of love and marriage passed down from generation to generation.
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African Folktale Marriage of Tau and Oni
Ayo
had a most beautiful daughter Oni visited by many wealthy men asking for her
hand in marriage.
However, her father Ayo would insist he empty the river with a
peanut shell before he would agree to marriage for his only daughter.
The men always walked away in disappointment
for the task was impossible, they thought Ayo to be a fool until, at last, one suitor
Tau, actually tried to empty the river with a peanut shell!
Tyo won the beautiful Oni hand in marriage for
the father said: "Kdm ago tsuru baditsia tsido, He who is truly in love agrees
to the impossible.”
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