Tololwa M Mollel

A Tanzanian boy saves his coins to buy a bicycle so that he can help his parents carry goods to market, but then he discovers that in spite of all he has saved, he still does not have enough money.

A variety of animals try to help a hare get rid of the mysterious intruder who has taken over her house.

The king challenges the animals in his kingdom to prove their wisdom by making him a robe of smoke, but only the tortoise is able to satisfy him.

Though delighted that an orphan boy has come into his life, an old man becomes insatiably curious about the boy's mysterious powers. Seaching the sky for a familiar star, an old man encounters a mysterious boy, Kileken. As he comes to love the boy as a son, he agrees to let him keep the one thing he owns: a secret.

Little Oli wants to be big enough to go bird hunting with his brother Mbachu but has to take a nap instead.

Set in contemporary Tanzania, this variation on a traditional tale describes how a young girl learns a lesson in patience when a spirit woman sends her to get three whiskers from a lion.

A young African boy who lives with his grandparents on their coffee farm follows their hen in order to find out where she is hiding her eggs.