Kera kera hashize abantu ntibari bazi ikintu nakimwe. Ntibari bazi uko bahinga ibihingwa, cyangwa uko badoda umwenda, cyangwa uko bakora imikoresho by’icyuma. Imana Nyame mu ijuru yari ifite ubwenge bwose mu isi. Yabubikaga mu ingono y’ibumba.
Long long ago people didn’t
know anything. They didn’t
know how to plant crops, or
how to weave cloth, or how to
make iron tools.
The god Nyame up in the sky
had all the wisdom of the world.
He kept it safe in a clay pot.
Umunsi umwe, Nyame yanzuye ko iha Anansi ingono y’ubwenge. Buri gihe Anansi yarebaga mu inkono y’ibumba, yamenyaga ikintu gishya. Byari bishimishije!
One day, Nyame decided that
he would give the pot of
wisdom to Anansi.
Every time Anansi looked in the
clay pot, he learned something
new. It was so exciting!
Igisambo Anansi yaratekereje, “Nzahisha inkono mubushorishori bw’igiti kirekire. Izaba ari iyange gusa!” Yafumbye akagozi karekare, akazengurutsa inkono y’ibumba, inayizirika ku igifu (inda) ke. Yatangiye kurira igiti. Ariko byari bigoye kuri igiti n’inkono imukubita ku amavi buri gihe.
Greedy Anansi thought, “I’ll
keep the pot safe at the top of a
tall tree. Then I can have it all
to myself!”
He spun a long thread, wound it
round the clay pot, and tied it to
his stomach.
He began to climb the tree. But
it was hard climbing the tree
with the pot bumping him in the
knees all the time.
Buri gihe umuhungu muto wa Anansi yarari hasi areberera. Yaravuze, Ntibyari kukorohera iyo wurira inkono iziritse ku mugongo ahubwo?” Anansi yagerageje kuzirika inkono y’ibumba kumugongo, byo byari byoroshye cyane.
All the time Anansi’s young son
had been standing at the
bottom of the tree watching. He
said, “Wouldn’t it be easier to
climb if you tied the pot to your
back instead?”
Anansi tried tying the clay pot
full of wisdom to his back, and it
really was a lot easier.
Mu gihe gito yari yageze mu ubushorishori bw’igiti. Ariko ubwo yarahagaze aranatekereza, “ninge wakagobye kuba nfite ubwenge bwose, none dore umuhungu wange ni umunyabwenge kundusha!” Anansi yari arakaye cyane kubera byo bimutera kujugunya inkono y’ibumba hasi kuba mu giti.
In no time he reached the top of
the tree.
But then he stopped and
thought, “I’m supposed to be
the one with all the wisdom,
and here my son was cleverer
than me!”
Anansi was so angry about this
that he threw the clay pot down
out of the tree.
Yamenetse mo ibice k’ubutaka. Ubwenge bwari aho bwo gusangirwa na buri umwe. Kandi nuko abantu bamenye guhinga, kufuma umwenda, gukora ibikoresho by’ibyuma, n’ibindi bintu abantu bazi gukora.
It smashed into pieces on the
ground. The wisdom was free
for everyone to share.
And that is how people learned
to farm, to weave cloth, to
make iron tools, and all the
other things that people know
how to do.
Ghanaian folktale
Wiehan de Jager
Patrick Munyurangabo
Kinyarwanda
Level 3
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