Hot Hippo

Mwenye Hadithi

Jan 1989 · Weston Woods · Narrated by Terry Alexander

About this audiobook

Hippo promises not to eat Ngai's little fishes in exchange for being allowed to live in the cool water instead of on dry land.

About the author

Bruce Hobson writes as Mwenye Hadithi (“story teller” in Swahili). He was born in Nairobi, Kenya. He later went to rugbyschool in England and studied foreign literature at the London University. This is when he started collecting traditional African stories and began his writing career.