Chapter Nine: The Contest

When a big tree goes down those creatures that depended on it are in trouble. The big tree had just been uprooted and there was a void in the kingdom it needed to be filled. The ball was now in the coat of the gods and the council of elders. The contest had to be set, everyone wanted it. It was sweet honey the Kingship came with all the privileges. If it was a job vacancy then it would have attracted more than five thousand applicants for a single position and if it was a young girl then all prospects were seen around the compound more often but the culture dictated that the seat be hereditary and it was clear that the firstborn child, especially of the male gender, could take up the throne in the circumstances his father fells sick or passes on.

I knew less about brother Okusimba and the less included and not limited to a hardworking, determined, loving, and caring individual. He was local as many described him, their character was like darkness and daylight