QofiKenkey
The Journey of Kan
A Plan
On his eleventh birthday he was initiated into the league of the fisherman.
Kanu Biziwale, the second child of Thanda Kazi Biziwale, a long serving fisherman, was not ready for the harsh conditions of boyhood. His father cared less. In Africa, parents were strict with their young. Life was tougher than steel and to penetrate the deep depths of hell, one had to go the extremes at whatever age they found themselves. At least he was ten and strong. His friends who were younger had not had it any easier. Some entered the school of fishing at six or eight or nine. They were students to cruel men. They pulled nets from the roaring seas and straightened complex and entangled lines. Some assisted their guardians at chiseling new canoes and sometimes joined the raw action on the billowing seas. It wasn't easy and it wasn't fiction. The toil was real BUT Kan Bizi was a different kid, he had grand plans and he was going to execute them in an intelligent fashion.
After twenty days of arduous work with his father at sea, Kan was ready to exit the league of The Fisherman, to leave his village. He told no one, not his father, his mother, Bizi Sol nor his only sibling Sweetie Sol. Kan left the village unceremoniously,he snaked his way through the dull dawn stealthy and unheard. He had with him a handmade goatskin bag that carried two clothes, a steel bowl, a fishing coil, two loaves of bread, some dried cassava fish and a catapult.
Kan had wild imaginations of the city. He believed that was where he would meet redemption but the city had other plans for eleven year old Kan and redemption was not on the list.
An hour through the bushes of the villages, the brave young boy met his first ordeal.
The First Ordeal - The Broken Lorry and The Old Seaman
...to be continued...