By Majammeh Yahara, RVTH, Banjul

Kerr Tubeye, the most hardworking village was incredibly engulfed by fire.The entire  village folk were busy repairing huts and barns which were consumed by the inferno.Macaco, the ape, ran about with a burnt butt. "Who made your buttocks red? ha,ha..." mocked Hiena, the troublesome hynea." I tried to convince the villagers that I was the arsonist by sitting on a burning torch; however, they did not believe me and there is a great reward of a barn full of dry meat for the arsonist," replied Macaco.
  "What? where, how?..." asked Hiena while speaking through her nose.
  Within seconds, Hiena rushed to her cave to fetch her talking drum ('tama').
  Shortly afternoon as the villagers  were relaxing under a huge mahogany tree in the epicenter of the village courtyard, they were rudely awakened by a sound coming from a drum."ndong, ndong, ndong! I burnt the village and the bushes, ndong! I did it while celebrating my expected rewards! where is the dry meat promised the arsonist, ndong, ndong...!" sang hynea. Hiena could not complete her last verse when blows started raining on her face and back. Poor hynea left Kerrr Tubeye without any dry meat  but a sagging back.

  Wollof adage: "it is always the last straw that breaks the camel's
back, but too much water pours out."