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1. No African country names begin with the letters F, H, I, J, O, P, Q, V, W, X, or Y.

2. Africa is surrounded by water but by definition Africa is not an island because Africa is a continent.

3. The Republic of the Congo is one of the most urbanized countries in Africa.

Sad fate of three little flies African Folktale Story

They should have listened to good advice, the sad fate of three little flies African Folktale story.

Sad fate of three little flies African Folktale Story.

Sad fate of three little flies African Folktale Story

As the elders say, a fly had three children. When the children were old enough to take care of themselves, their mother called them to her and gave them some good and much needed advice.

To the eldest she said, "My child, beware of honey!"

The second child she cautioned, "Whatever you do, never drink palm wine!"

To the third and youngest she warned, "My son, never play with fire!"

One day the eldest of the children went to the woods, and there he found some wild honey. On looking at it, he shouted, "Ah, this is the very thing of which mother has forbidden me to eat! How I do wish to taste it! Just to taste of it cannot be so wrong!"

And he drew nearer and nearer, and at last he began to taste. "0, such delicious honey!" he exclaimed, when he discovered that it was sweet. "How silly of mother to forbid me eating it!"

Before he knew it, he stood right in it. After a while, he noticed that the honey stuck to his legs, and he tried to get away, but could not. He was stuck inside the honey and died.

The second child found some new palm wine that had collected in a pumpkin bowl. This too tasted sweet. At first, he only sipped of it.

Then he began to drink in gulps but, after a while, the wine started to ferment in his stomach, and he died.

The alluring beauty of a blazing fire attracted the third and youngest child. Repeatedly he fluttered around it; closer and closer he came to the treacherous flames, until at last he burned his wings, fell into the fire and died.

For over a week, the anxious and grief-stricken mother waited for the return of her children, but in vain.

She went to a witchdoctor and told him the cause of her grief. The witchdoctor, on hearing her story, looked at her with piercing eyes and then said, "Your children have disobeyed you and their disobedience has killed them!"

Therefore, these foolish little flies perished because of their disobedience. Had they believed and obeyed their mother, they would not have died.


More short folklore stories from Africa to make you fall in love with myths and legends again from the motherland.

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  3. Hunters Attack Cowards Tell the Story
  4. One Do Wrong All Get Punished
  5. Mighty Little Hedgehog

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Africa is surrounded by water but is not an island, here are a few African Island facts.

Madagascar is the 4th large island in the world and is located in the Indian Ocean supporting a unique biology, about 90% of its plants and animals are found nowhere else on earth.

Composed of 155 islands, Seychelles is Africa's smallest country. By far the largest island is Mahe, home to about 90% of the population and the site of its capital city of Victoria.

Cabo Verde has a strategic location 310 miles or 500 km from the west coast of Africa near major north-south sea routes; important communications station; important sea and air refueling site.

Africa is surrounded by water but by definition Africa is not an island because Africa is a continent. Continents can not be considered islands because of their size and also by historic definition since many people who study geography define islands and continents as two different things.

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