 The recent AFCON tournament hosted by Equatorial Guinea and Gabon left the continent appreciating the truth in the dog-eat-dog law of the jungle.
This story is the last part of the jungle series which culminated in the bullet tearing into every living organism to take the crown.
When a modern professional hunter takes off to the jungle he depends on his bullet to bring him the trophy.
So too were the events in Equatorial Guinea and Gabon as Zambia polished their copper bullet and marched into the African jungle where they killed all that came their way to come home not only with the much priced ivory horn but also with an excavated lost treasure of US$2 million.
The copper bullet’s case was helped by a host of cannibals who pounced on the jungle’s weak prey and sometimes with touted predatory killers like the jaguar unsuspectingly preyed upon by mere eagles, or in some cases elephants forced to try crocodiles’ meat or better still the antelope eating a stallion.
After seeing the bullet shoot through the head of a Nile crocodile, the elephant shrugging off electrocution from host Equatorial Guinea’s national lightning, behold the gods of the jungle were angered by these unusual eating habits and decided to turn the sky into a rare darkness as the Carthage eagle from Tunisia succumbed to the fury of a Black Star.
But like a Lunar eclipse, the skies finally cleared.
This however was only after the marksmen from Zambia had his shot precisely shooting down the black star.
In the illusion of the Lunar eclipse, the Malian eagle assumed it had gained some super natural powers and thought it could fight an elephant.
But alas, its beak was crudely mutilated by the hard rough skin of the Ivorian elephant.
The mutilated Malian eagle had to salvage pride by thwarting a black star to win a third place finish.
So the story was.....the elephant of Ivory Coast and the copper bullet from Zambia lingered on as the only remnants in the shooting range.
But history refused to defy Mother Nature as the bullet went for its target.
But the Zambian marksman had to fire 9 rounds missing once and 7 times he got gored by the elephant before it finally crushed to the ground in submission and death.
The elephant was feasted upon by the Zambian clan in Lusaka, Ndola, Livingstone and across the copper belt.
So huge was the jumbo that the meat was enough to feed even neighbours across the Zambezi, down the Limpopo, to the Indian Ocean on the east, to the Kalahari Desert on the West.
But off course the prized possession, the tusk, remained in Lusaka in the custody of King Kalu.
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