Conkiajgharuna is borne into a wealthy family which loses their fortune. She is reduced to being a servant and begging in rags to stay alive, but is that the end of her story? Baba Indaba believes the tale he is about to tell in this little book, and all the others he haslearned, are the common property of every child of every nation in the world - and sothey are and have been ever since men and women began telling stories, thousands and thousands of years ago.
