Description
When Ijapa, known for his cunning, mischief and tricks, double crosses and betrays a friend, he is in for a surprise.
Ijapa is back with his family and living once again in Teregun, when the town experiences another famine, with devastating results. Ijapa’s friend and neighbour Aja (Dog) is glaringly unaffected by the famine, so Ijapa, whose family risks dying from it, pleads with him repeatedly to let him in on his secret. Aja, who has been going to steal yams at another town every day, finally agrees to take him along, against his better judgement, on the condition that they dig only one yam at a time, for obvious reasons. The penalty for stealing is grave.
Ijapa agrees to Aja’s condition, but after just a couple of trips he tricks Aja and digs five more out of pure greed. Aja is shocked when, deciding to move on, Ijapa asks him to help him with his load, and threatens that if he does not, he will alert the farm-owner as to what is happening.
Knowing that Ijapa is bound to implicate him when he is caught, Aja hurries home to find a solution to the deep trouble he finds himself in.
