African Folktales.

The Shark and the Monkey

In this story the shark and the monkey become friends after sharing gruit. The shark invites the monkey to his cave. On the way he told the monkey that he was taking him to the sultans cave because he needed a monkey heart to live. The monkey told the shark that he left his heart in the tree. They go back and the monkey goes into his tree and never comes back. I thought this story meant that one can never trust what comes from the ocean. In most cases this was the europeans coming from boats.