Rotimi Ogunjobi 
Ajala the Terrible Child and other Stories 

The story of a boy so terrible that even animals are afraid of him. Everyone in town is afraid of Ajala . In shame his mother took him inside a forest and there abandoned Ajala. He makes friends with some animals but soon they find that Ajala is a very wicked child.The animals run away but Ajala is in hot pursuit. Can the world be saved from Ajala the terrible child ? (stories: Usman and the Leopard , Ajala the Terrible Child, The Lion’s Food, The Foolish Rich Man)