The Herd Boy

Thabo means happiness. It was the name given to him by his father seventeen years ago on the starlit night he was born in the Mountain Kingdom of Lesotho. African names often shape the destiny of the name bearer, and so it had been with Thabo. He was content as a Basotho herd boy and blessed with happiness. He knew no other life, had never been to school, and would travel the same path as his father before him.