Heritage: Fractured Roots

In the village, if things go wrong, you blame the crows. In Kampala, you blame the children.

Enter Mwami Senoga's compound, where Nnalongo reads a crow as a death sentence and Ruth watches from the West Wing with marigolds in her teeth. Enter Teddy and Stella, who stole sugarcane from a witch and are praying nobody notices.

Then enter a fierce stepmother from Kasenyi, armed with the holy trinity of traditional parenting: hard work, high expectations, and a very flexible leather belt. Enter her new stepdaughter in Kololo, who isn't trying to be stubborn. She is just drowning in the beautiful, chaotic static of undiagnosed dyslexia and ADHD.

As village superstitions collide with modern city realities, this family is forced to realize that running from ancestral curses is the easy part. The real battle is surviving breakfast.