Sade and the Golden Shoe

Sade and The Shoe is a new Nigerian folktale. Sade, the heroine, saves her village from the curse of a golden shoe found by her father in a nearby magic lake. The story uses the influences of traditional West African storytelling, along with customary cadences to weave this tale of a little girls adventure and that of her unlikely best friend, the village mosquito. The story is similar to the fame...