One Day. One Book. Indigenous-Language Storybooks

Langutani's Trick

Originally written in Xitsonga

Supported by
Sharp Shoot

Langutani and his father are frustrated. The baboons come at night to eat and destroy their maize crops. Can they ever stop the baboons?

  • Written by Langutani Christopher Makhubele
  • Illustrated by Stephen Wallace
  • Designed by Caitlin Sloane
  • Edited by Alison Ziki
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Mother reading to child image from Graca’s Dream by Karlien de Villiers, Marike le Roux and Melissa Fagan