AFRICA THE LAND OF HONEY
The principal character in the book, "Fortune favors the bold", is a polygamous, heartless African man, although socially respected and perceived as cursed as a result of an unexpected bad turn on events.
The protagonist, Asweda, faces severe physical injuries while looking for a mid-wife to assist his wife to deliver. He becomes an embarrassment to society when his wife gives birth to a male child who turns out to be a product of infidelity. He struggles to cover up the shame and, in the process, breaks the laid down society norms, an act which angered the ancestors, marking the onset and manifestation of a curse in his life. His family is very affected by drought, hunger and famine. He struggles to sire a male child.
Asweda, being a romantic man, marries up to four wives, one of whom comes out to be a night runner and a magician.
On a migration mission, Asweda losses all his wealth to thieves, his gardener is killed, and his child becomes critically sick. He heartlessly butchered one of the thieves on a defense mission. Asweda makes a hard decision to bury his gardener in a strange foreign bush land and later haunts him and demands to be buried in ancestral land.
Asweda ignores the cleansing ceremony which comes along with serious consequences. The now poor African man plots a cattle rustling exercise in an attempt to gain wealth, killing an 'Oromo' man, in the process running away with a large sizable number of cattle. The Oromo men attacked him on a revenge mission, chopping off his leg and throwing him in a cave where he spent quite some time eating rats for survival.
The African polygamous man later reunites with the family only to find all his wives already inherited. He struggled to own back his wife to the extent of butchering a mad man who had inherited one of his wives despite his physical disability status.
Asweda sires a son at his old age. Twelve years later, he blesses his son Obulala and then dies partially satisfied. His brother Ocholi also dies during the body viewing process, signifying a hidden societal meaning.
Although Asweda dies, his family prospers. His two sons engage in love and support each other. The true character of one of the brothers is revealed at the time he became rich and betrayed his brother to the extent of making him a slave. The richness vanished as a result of arrogance. Eventually, the less fortunate brother finds wealth in a hard way.
The story is really wow. I really like the story and its message. I author brings a sense of individualism as seen in the struggle to acquire wealth. The story brings a sense of betrayal as Asweda Asweda is being betrayed by his own brother on love issues. The author passes a message of betrayal in marriage as cases of infidelity as highlighted in the novel
The character design is really amazing, i like and recommend this book to other readers. It has alot to do with cultural activities and the way olden days people lived
The quality of work is really amazing.The story development is good and really interesting.The characters have unique behaviour which is really shocking
The beautiful book describes how the society is held by poor cultural practices. The book itself brings the theme of change. Asweda, an African man suffers problem due to his emphasis on change
The good part of the story is how the ironic part of the characters behavior. The story emphasize on the communist style of living . The book acknowledge the presence of dark powers in the society. Some characters are used to expose the lazy in the society who just want to acquire resources unfairly
The story is really funny and interesting at the same time, How the main character suffers in the hands of a primitive society that is uncaring is really bad
The book amazingly highlights the sense of responsibility in the society. The author is optimistic that the old traditional practices will gradually change with time.
The world background is really amazing. The character design is really amazing. I really appreciate the author role in educating the society
The world background is smart and character design is good. Story development is really wow. I really like the story and wish to recommend it.
I really like the book. It brings out the aspect of social life. The society role in upholding morality is clea elaborated in the book. The role of young people in the society comes out clearly
The the African olden days was really amazing, how this book describe their way of life help in understanding their organization in the society. Their old style of living is really fascinating
Really interesting 🤔, 😘😘😘😘😘😘, The book is really entertaining and has gives a good visualization .The story development is also wow. I really like it and recommend
The thoughts are well organized. The authors describe step by step turn out of event. The sense of irresponsibility is seen as Asweda maries despite having almost all his property
There is a good story development plan. The novel covers family life, social life and religious aspects of life. The novel tries to expose some of the vices in the society.
The book "fortune favor the bold" shows the challanges faced in our traditional society. Theft and loss of life are some of the main empacies in the story.