I’m a snail farmer. My goal is to become one of the biggest snail farmers in Africa. I’m starting small, but I want to raise millions of them—herds of snails, hordes of snails, swarms of snails.

Thai inspects black snails he just harvested from the pond. Photo: E.X During a trip to Can Tho, Thai became interested in black snail farming, wondering why he couldn’t raise black snails himself.