Describes how the author and her family established a friendship with a wart hog at their home outside of Nairobi and how the relationship continued for eight years, embracing the hog's offspring.
Impatient to go trick-or-treating, a young witch tries her mother's spells on a warthog without success, until a mysterious old man teaches her the art of persuasion.
Tired of being teased, Ngiri, the smallest warthog in Africa, uses a set of magic drums to make wishes, but he is not careful enough and makes the rift between the Warthogs and the beautiful Other Beasts even worse.
When Mogo is cast out of his burrow to make room for a new litter, he learns how to survive and as an unlikely friendship with a young baboon blooms, Mogo finds the joy of friendship and love.
