by: Suzanne Preston Blier
Egbé eja leja ?wè tò, egbé eye leye ?wò lé
Fish swim in a school of their own kind;
Birds fly in a flock of their own kind.
Yoruba Proverb
We mention nature and forget ourselves in it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
So engrained is the trope of the animal in the West that animal truisms are seared into
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