Let me tell you about a story of Regulus who encountered a large serpent during the First Punic War. You must have been familiar with the apocryphal Hausa history of a snake (Sarki) at the Kusugu well in Daura which terrorised the citizens before it was slain by Bayyajida, a prince of Baghdad, who married Queen Daurama to establish the seven Hausa states. Today, I shall tell you the Afro-European version which happened 2,273 years ago in Carthage, present-day Tunisia. The First Punic War It was in the year 255 BC and the...