STORY INFO
Aela and the Kola Nut
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Author
Lunar Moon
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Categories
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Danh mục
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Update
1 year ago
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Part Chapter
1/??
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Reads
100
Content
There was no one alive who knew that this broad, harsh savannah was once a fertile river basin. But if Aela did know, he might have cursed the earth for changing its mind about that. In Benin, 1750, Aela needed to grow his yams, and here he was forced to obey the whims of drastic seasons and his place in time, and an awful drought. As he looked over his field of silent mounds of dirt with tuber seeds buried underneath, h...
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I like the historical fiction aspect of this - it made me feel invested in what Aela's life (or someone else's) must've been like centuries ago. Could probably still relate to what people experience today too. I did like the story, but it did also kind of end sooner than I was expecting - maybe there could've been more to the dream that the goddess Oya was asking of Aela because the resolution came quicker than I was expecting. Still liked it though, I think I just wanted more!
Thank you, I'm so glad to hear you liked it :)I got a lot of inspiration from Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe and a collection of African Myths edited by Jake Jackson. Yes, monsoon season in Africa is very fickle and yams still are a very popular crop. I think people still worship the goddess Oya today. I found some prayers online while I was doing research. I kind of understand your point that it ended abruptly. It probably needed an extra paragraph or two at the end as a buffer.
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