title: Hungry Hyena (African Animal Tales)
author:  Mwenye Hadithi 
description: A nicely illustarted children's book<b><i>Reading Evening Post</i></b><br /><br />... a cross between Aesop's fables and a simplified Jungle Book.<b><i>The Sunday Times</i></b>
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  Chapter One 
  One clean jump, and the leopard sailed effortlessly over the wall, landing noiselessly inside 
  Nma's father's compound. It made straight for the pen. At the last count in the afternoon, before 
  the knotted omu nkwu was flung backwards into the compound, the pen held five adult goats, 
  two of them nursing mothers. The Hausa goat, so designated because it came from the northern 
  part of Nigeria, towered above the local breed; like the giant Alakuku standing five heads above 
  ordinary men. Nma's father had acquired it at Eke Ogbu for next to nothing, and fed it so 
  devotedly that it had in no time been transformed from a moving skeleton to a young cow. The 
  money it would fetch him at the next Ikeji festival, he reckoned, would pay the bride price for a 
  new wife any time Mama Nma began to pass water like a man. 
  Teleguided by the omu nkwu, the leopard advanced stealthily, its eyes sparkling in t