The following Northern Sotho poem appears to be about a leopard; but the allusion is to the chiefs of the Tlokwa, whose symbol was a leopard.
It is the yellow leopard with the spots
The yellow leopard of the cliffs
Oral Poetry from Africa
Filed Under: Poems of Gods & Ancestors
The following Northern Sotho poem appears to be about a leopard; but the allusion is to the chiefs of the Tlokwa, whose symbol was a leopard.
It is the yellow leopard with the spots
The yellow leopard of the cliffs
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