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The story, copyrighted in 2014 by the African Storybook Initiative, explores a didactic tale about wisdom, age, and humility. It narrates the story of a man who arrogantly believes his youth makes him wiser than his elders, specifically his father-in-law. He boasts about his supposed superior intellect, even to his wife, who tries to reason with him. The conflict escalates when the wife relays her husband's boast to her father. The father-in-law, a wise old man, devises clever challenges to teach his son-in-law a lesson. He accepts the son-in-law's request to brew a drink from mist, an impossible task. In turn, he sets a condition for the collection of this 'brew': it must be collected by someone who is neither a man nor a woman. This seemingly paradoxical condition leaves the arrogant son-in-law trapped and at a loss. The story concludes with the son-in-law internalizing the proverb that 'Shoulders will never grow taller than the head,' signifying his newfound understanding of the limitations of youthful arrogance and the enduring value of experience and true wisdom. The narrative serves as a moral lesson, promoting respect for elders and cautioning against overconfidence and pride.","The Wise Man  \nWriter: Cornelius Wekunya  \nIllustration: Joshua Waswa  \nEnglish Story Book  \nThe Wise Man  \nWriter: Cornelius Wekunya  \nIllustration: Joshua Waswa  \nEnglish  \nThe wise man  \nWriter: Cornelius Wekunya  \nIllustration: Joshua Waswa  \nCopyright © 2014, African Storybook Initiative  \nYou are free to make commercial use of this work. You may adapt and add to this work. You must keep the copyright and credits for authors, illustrators, etc.  \nOnce upon a time, there was a man who thought that the youth were wiser than their elders. He even bragged about it before his wife.  \nHe said to her,“I am wiser than your father.”  \nHis wife disagreed with him, but he would not listen to her .  \nOne day when the wife went to see her parents, she told her father about how his son-in-law claims to  \nbe wiser than him because he is younger. The old man sent his daughter back to ask her husband if he still held the same view.  \nHer husband sent her back.“Go and tell your father to prepare for me a drink brewed from mist.”  \n“Now I will prove to my father- in-law that I am indeed very wise,” he chuckled.  \nNo one can make a drink from mist.  \nThe father-in-law just laughed it off as no alcohol could be made out of mist. However, the old man sent the daughter back with a message accepting the challenge of preparing a brew from mist. But on condition that when it was ready, the one to collect it should neither be a  \nman nor a woman .  \nThe son-in-law found himself trapped. 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