TALES FROM THE CITIES.

      Little Monica always wondered why her daddy always said “go out and play with your brother and sister.” Even though she was an only child, when she asked her father why he always referred to the children of the woman with the ‘big bumbum’ as her brother and sister, he would say “we are all children of the Good Lord, and that’s why they are your brother and sister too.”       Monica’s mother smiled overhearing this, it was a worthwhile lesson her husband was teaching their daughter, indeed it was this mindset that saw Joe defy his parents’ expectations and tie the knot with a poor farmer’s only child.      Joe had inherited his parents’ farm when they died, and decided to venture into something that had been only theory in academia – co-op farming, where a plot of land was divided amongst different farmers who paid rent to farm on their allocated plots of land. In the midst of unforeseen circumstances, it assured the landowner of ...