{"id":2954,"date":"2025-10-25T11:48:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T11:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trekafricaartgallery.com\/new\/?page_id=2954"},"modified":"2026-02-01T15:18:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T15:18:06","slug":"zebras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trekafricaartgallery.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/25\/zebras\/","title":{"rendered":"Zebras"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Every evening after dinner we would gather by the fire place to listen to folk tales, the narrator was either our grandfather or our aunt. lt was a time no child could afford to miss. There are times l wish l could go back to those days.<\/p>\n

As the story goes, there were no zebras\u00a0but donkeys then, one day there was to be a wedding in the animal village, just like in the human world animals also love weddings. lt was announced that there was to be big wedding and all the animals were supposed to attend, however, only those dressed smartly could attend. The donkey\u2019s dull color was a frowned upon. This feeling gave donkeys a lot of concern, it was common knowledge that the donkeys would not attend the wedding.<\/p>\n

\u00a0As\u00a0days went by, the donkeys were working frantically to find a way to change their color. lt was only after one Mr Rabbit came up with an idea that he could change the donkey colors by painting them in stripes of black and white that the donkeys relaxed. This big news was greeted with a lot of excited cheers from other animals but the donkeys cheered the loudest.<\/p>\n

\u00a0A day was set aside to do this task of transforming the donkeys into beauties, the artist was ready with his paint, he told all the donkeys to line up orderly so that he could paint them one by one, there was a lot of excitement, lots of singing and dancing while they waited for their turn. When the first donkey got his new look it was difficult now to control the rest of the donkeys, the excitement had gotten the better of them but order was restored once the artist threatened to stop the whole exercise. One by one they got the black and white stripes and the artist was getting tired too, nevertheless he continued with the task of the day. The other animals were somehow thinking of doing something about their colors too but that is a story for another day, at least that is what the narrator told us.<\/p>\n

\u00a0You and me know how it can be difficult to control crowds not to mention if people are waiting to gain something, in this case it was the animals jostling and kicking one another, cries of \u201cplease please behave yourself\u201d from the artist were ignored. A gazelle was kicked for trying to restore order, a warthog was slapped twice because he did nothing but smile. Someone was sent to fetch the lion at least to control things but the messenger found the lion having his lunch, he couldn\u2019t be bothered, his hurt look conveyed that that was no time to disturb him while feeding. The messenger gave up.<\/p>\n

\u00a0When someone gave a frightening cry that the paint was running out, the whole area became a battle field, everyone wanted to get to the front and by so doing they kicked the last tin of paint. Blame was all over, others cried in frustration and there were those\u00a0 who turned against the artist.
\u00a0For those donkeys that had been painted ,things changed immediately, they now became ZEBRAS, the zebras wanted nothing to do with donkeys any more, after all they were now going to attend the prestigious wedding. After the wedding it was obvious that the donkeys would not stay together with the zebras and the zebras thought by staying near the donkeys they could loose their stripes. This animosity escalated to a fight of the zebras and donkeys, the donkeys eventually kicked the zebras out of the village but since the zebras were considered beautiful all the other animals followed them into the wild. To this day donkeys are still sulking, never happy, always braying and calling out to other animals to come back to the village.<\/p>\n

Now you know why Zebras have black and white stripes ?<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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