HOW HARD COULD IT BE

He came to Kano for one year.
He left with scars, a girlfriend, and enemies he didn't make alone.
Juwon Adebanji was never supposed to be anybody. Poor. Quiet. Invisible. The kind of boy the world steps over without looking down.
But when violence follows him home from a Lagos park one evening - the kind that draws blood and feels like joy - his mother sends him away. North. To a boarding school in Kano State where a student named Sir Musa has ruled through fear for six years, where teachers smile and walk out during beatings, and where a Lagos boy with nothing sits in the wrong chair on his very first day.
What follows is a year that costs him almost everything.
And gives him something he never expected.
Some kings are born.
Some are beaten into it.