Long ago, the people of Rwanda suffered through a terrible famine. The rains did not come to help the crops grow, the grass withered, and the soil became so dry that it cracked.
The people looked to their village chiefs for guidance, but the chiefs could not help. They looked to the king, but he could not bring the rain. Only the magical tail of a mystical creature could save the kingdom.
Maguru is Rwanda's best hunter, even better than the king-and certainly better than his jealous village chief. He's hunted the buffalo, the antelope, and the leopard, but he has never hunted the deadly imparambwe.
To save his people, Maguru must now learn to outrun the wind and outwit a creature that can change shape in the wink of an eye. If he succeeds, he'll be a hero. If he fails, his people will die of starvation.
Maguru is determined not to fail.
Beautifully illustrated, Felicien Aroni Kanyamibwa's Legs of Tornado introduces readers to the world of African fables, where animals talk, beautiful brides hide deadly secrets, and magic lives and breathes.
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Dr. Felicien Kanyamibwa is an activist for human rights and an advocate of humanity, justice, peace, and development. He is of a view that human beings possess superior characteristics that must be identified, embraced, nourished, and empowered to help the world make a better place.He is the author of two inspirational African fairy tales, "Legs of Tornado: The Human Who Outran the Wind" and "Even Roosters Dream to Fly," which can be accessed through major platforms.Apart from his writing career, he has earned a Ph.D. in Business Administration - Management Science from Penn State University in University Park, Pennsylvania, a Master's degree in Quantitative Business Analysis and Management Information Systems from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and an Engineering degree in Statistics and Econometrics from the African Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics in Rwanda (IAMSEA).Beside academic dissertations, he has also produced short essays and pamphlets and contributed to academic journals and proceedings on business problems, historical themes and events, and social and political issues.Apart from that, he has taught business, advanced analytics, data science, machine learning, and econometrics courses at colleges and has worked with big organizations and institutions in the United States and Africa.
