Fortune favour the bold

The principal character in the book, "Fortune favors the bold", is a polygamous, heartless African man, although socially respected perceived as cursed as a result of unexpected turn of 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 the society when his wife gives birth to a male child who turned out to be a product of infidelity. He struggles to cover up the shame and in the process breaking the laid down society norms, an act which angers the ancestors marking the onset and manifestation of a curse in his life. His family gets much 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. In a migration mission, Asweda losses all his wealth to thieves, his gardener killed and his child becomes critically sick. He heartless butchers one of the thieves in a defense mission. Asweda makes a hard decision to bury his gardener in a strange foreign bush land who later haunts him back 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 sizeable number of cattle. The Oromo men attacked him in a revenge mission, chopping off his leg and threw him in a cave where he spent quite sometime eating rats for survival. The African polygamous man later reunited with the family only to find all his wives already inherited. He struggled to own back his wive to an extend of butchering a mad mad man who had inherited one of his wives despite his physical disability status. Asweda sires a son in his old age. Twelve years later, he blesses his son Obulala and then dies partially satisfied. His brother Ocholi also dies during body viewing process signifying a hidden societal meaning.