The Boy Who Walked Through The Worlds
In Kasooli, a village forever cloaked in dusk and ruled by the oppressive hand of King Ruganzu, a nameless boy emerges with dreams potent enough to shift reality. Despite ridicule and isolation, his extraordinary abilities – taming bees, conversing with birds, and daring to seek forbidden truths – propel him beyond the village's boundaries on an odyssey toward self-discovery.
Guided by enigmatic figures – a wise hare named Mpaka and the ethereal wolf, Lupa Silvana – the boy traverses strange lands where memories and time are traded as currency, and identities risk erasure. Each encounter tests him deeply, from the Citadel of Broken Clocks, where life itself is commodified, to the Hyena’s Library, where books breathe secrets of colonial legacies and painful truths. Through trials of memory and identity, he learns the profound power of holding onto one's past as a guide to the future.
As he journeys deeper, he confronts a surreal Mirror Realm, witnessing alternate versions of himself, each shaped by choices and compromises he never made. Haunted by loss and driven by ancestral whispers, he navigates his exile in a harsh European city that erodes souls, confronting internal and external prejudices. Amidst overwhelming despair, a hidden seed from his grandmother reminds him of his roots, resilience, and the quiet rebellion of retaining one's identity and dreams.
“The Boy Who Walked Through the Worlds” is an evocative tale exploring the enduring strength of memory, the trials of identity in displacement, and the courageous act of defining oneself against the noise of oppression and erasure.