Excerpt from «  Never burn down the whole barn for a little mouse, and other Yoruba tales », by Pierre Droal
« What’s the common point of a young peasant getting rich thanks to an invisible plant, a farmer burning his whole barn down because of a little mouse, and a hunter dying of thirst under the pouring rain ? These three stories come from Yorubaland, situated in West Africa, between Nigeria and Togo ; a thousand years old country , where tales and sayings are given a prime position. »