Chapter One
Hello! my name is Kangè. I am the son of Juma and Fatou and today is the day I join the Ancestors. I know you may be asking what I mean. I will tell you but first, this is my story.
Many years ago I was a boy hunting through the forest with my father when we saw her in the trees. She was looking at us with fear in her heart, she looked the same age as me. Her eyes as the purest jewel, and her smile tamed our hearts. My father asked, "who are you?" But she fled. I tried to follow her but father said " No" and I asked "did you not see her eyes?" he responded "I did" and he told me how chasing things that aren't mine is wrong and if it was not given to me it does not belong to me. "See how she gazed and fled as the gazelle from the lion" Father said.
"Will we see her again?" I asked, "if it is given to your eyes then you will," said the father.
On our way back he spoke to me about one day going to battle with my brothers and sisters and how one day I must learn to walk with the beasts of the land. I asked him "will we not hunt today?" he said "No". "Why?" I asked, and father smiled. I became lost.
When we got back to the tribe, I spoke with my mother. I told her everything that I saw, and she looked at my father in shock as though there was something I was not meant to see, Mother then looked at me, she said "You mustn't tell anyone of what you saw today, do you hear me?" "Yes mama" I responded. "Go to your brothers and sisters" my father said, so I stood up and went to them, I wanted to ask about what I saw but not doing as my mother is dishonourable to the family, but I told myself I must see her again.
