Sundiata's First Step

Sundiata humiliates his mother so much that she orders him to walk.

Sundiata also promises to bring a whole tree to his mother.

He orders an iron rod which helps him take his first steps.

"Very well then, I am going to walk today, " said Mari Djata, "Go and tell my father's smiths to make me the heaviest possible rod." (G.D. Pickett 106).