An Igbo man, a Yoruba man and an Hausa
man were lost in a forest and then captured by cannibals. The king of the cannibals told the prisoners that they could live if
they pass a trial. The first step was to go deep into the forest and get ten pieces of the same kind
of fruits. The three men went their separate
ways to gather fruits.
The Yoruba man first came back and said to the king,” I brought 10 apples.”
Then the king explained the trial to him, ”You
have to swallow the fruits without any expression on your face or you will be killed.
The first apple went in, but on the second
one, he winced out in pain, so he was killed.
The Igbo man arrived and showed the king
ten berries. When the king explained the trial to him, he thought to himself that this should
be easy…. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8and on the ninth berry, he burst out in laughter and was killed.
.
The Yoruba man and Igbo man met in
heaven and the Yoruba man asked,” Why did you laugh?
You almost got away with the trial.”
The Igbo man replied,” I couldn’t help it, when I saw the Hausa man running like a mad dog coming with
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