Reading Notes: The Lost Message


The African Story I have found myself writing about this week comes from South African Folktales. This story is called The Lost Message by James Honey. In the story there in the forests of Africa are may different ant faction, or many different species of ants. All of them had predators that they could seem to not defend from so they held a meeting with all the ant leaders. They wanted a place where all the ants could live and be protected from all of the predators. Through all of the discussion the ants can to no solution and split back up. But going back to normal ways they ran into the same problems with the same predators The insect king saw the ants struggles and send the message of unity to them via a beetle but this beetle never made it to the ant colonies so the ants still live in discord and are still preyed on among other animals.

(Picture is of an Ant: Source: Ant)

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