NAKUJAN Vs THE SPEAR
NAKUJAN Vs THE SPEAR By Jeremy Leariwala A long , long time ago in a village called Angorot, there lived a young lady called Nalongopi. She had a two year old daughter called Nakujan. It is said that her husband and son took care of their stock while she stayed back at home to take care of their house. There were many other villagers living with them in the village. The story taller tells us that there was a lot of tension in their village since it was reported that a number of enemy warriors had been spotted nearby. Those days’ communities fought over grazing fields, water and boundaries more frequently than today. But no one wanted to move away. They stayed put and fought on because there was nowhere else to go. But one day Nalongopi strapped Nakujan onto her back. She picked her machete, rope and walked out of the village to go and fetch some firewood. There was no one else going to the forest and she badly needed the woods for cooking. She fear...