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Two crocodile heads. One stomach. Everything they swallow feeds both of them equally. They are still fighting. The Akan people of Ghana looked at this image and did not call it a failure. They called it the most honest picture of what human community actually is — shared destiny, and still competing — and they made it into a symbol. Not to celebrate the conflict. To ask the question it raises: if the stomach is already one, what exactly are the heads fighting about?

A chain is easy to misread: you see it and you see constraint. The Akan people of Ghana looked at the same object and saw something entirely different — a form in which every individual part remains completely itself, and yet contributes to something that no single part could be or accomplish alone. Nkonsonkonson: chain link. Neither link dissolves into the other. Each holds, and is held. We are linked, the Akan proverb says, in both life and death. The connection is not optional. The only question is what quality of link you choose to be.