Osaigbovo and Adesuwa are anxious to get home from school because they are having a birthday party. We observe the preparations—getting dressed, cooking food—and join in the celebration while discovering that life in Benin City today is a mixture of the modern and the traditional, Western and Nigerian. Finally, we listen as the father tells the assembled guests the Benin creation myth, the story of how the earth was born. (15 minutes)

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