African Folklore

Sahara- Their folklore was about a girl named Binta who created peace between the djinns and the humans. One day Binta and her friends were walking home and they saw a tafaka, a lizard, pregnant. Binta helped the lizard with the birth. Few weeks later a stranger comes to her house to help give birth to somebody named Tafaka. She goes and finds out that the tafaka was a djinn. She stays at their camp for 40 days and learns more about the djinns. When she returns home, people know about what happened to Binta. One day a handsome man comes in her tent and she decides to match him up with a djinn. They get married and because of their marriage the women of Air are beautiful and lovely even till this day.

This folklore involved a human helping out an animal from the wildlife and importance placed on wildlife is one of the elements of African folklore. It explained why the women of Air are lovely by showing how the first generation met. The moral lesson from this folklore can be if you help someone without any selfish intentions, then you will receive a reward. Binta helped willingly and she got a reward of becoming friends with the djinns. This wasn't very entertaining to me, but it could have been entertaining to people back then. I guess it's funny that there was a random lizard pregnant and some girl passing by helped with the birth. Suprisingly the lizard was some kind of god and from that experience the girl can have a friendship with the gods. I could connect to this myth by trying to be like Binta and help out without any selfish desires.