“The First Zebra” tells us the story of how animals, in the beginning, were all similar after their creation. Only later on, they were all summoned by the creator to be given the opportunity to select their colourful coats and their horns. This tale introduces us into the African zoology with its variety of species and into the legendary substratum of the cultures living on the oldest continent of humankind. The lion’s beauty, the elephant`s majesty, the rhinoceros’s shortsightedness and the zebra’s gluttony are ancestral categories humans used to define and describe their surrounding world.

A tale from "Angony of Central Africa" (1988) by Nick Greaves & Rod Clement. New York: Barron's)