Once upon a time, in a village near Kayes (in what is now modern Mali), there lived four brothers, who plied their family�s traditional trade as shoemakers and leatherworkers, fashioning the skins of crocodiles from a nearby river into shoes, bags and wallets. But perhaps due to drought or excessive hunting, the crocodile population began to dwindle dramatically, until the family could no longer sustain a living from their craft. The brothers decided to disperse... more