The Pied Piper of Kankara
ALTERNATIVE By Reno Omokri Many of my readers may have read the famous German fairy tale, The Pied Piper of Hamelin. Basically, it was about a pied (someone dressed in multi-coloured clothes), piper, who had been hired by the Saxon town of Hamelin to help them get rid of an infestation of rats. He played his enchanted pipe, and all the rats in Hamelin followed him and the town was rid of its infestation. And then the town’s people refused to pay him. And the piper did not make a fuss. He simply played his magical pipe, and all the children of the town followed him, never to be seen or heard...