He Became a Fish unites today’s traditional African society with the folklore that parents and grandparents fascinate their curious children with beside smoldering logs of fires in cold August evenings. This story entwines the supernatural with reality, and plunges the reader into the depths of a river where the metaphysical blooms and breeds beautiful life in human form.
The story is set in a local African village where Kito, the young son of a sick fisherman, takes to his father’s trade in order to feed the family and also keep his sick father on life-sustaining medication. The problem, however, is that the cause of his father’s sickness is supernatural. It can be traced back to his wife who is not human but a descendant of the river clan. Her son is a kalasona, the first hybrid of fish and man, except he knows nothing about it.
He would remain in blissful ignorance, but he tumbles on a girl while fishing at night- a girl very much like his mother. She tells him a “fish-tale” about his mother; where she came from, who she was… but he does not believe her. He thinks her story is made-up. She tries to help the sick fisherman regain his health but it’s already too late. Everything else happens so fast only the old, unnaturally gifted man seated on his verandah across the road from the fisherman’s house can say what really happened. Yet no one believes him, when he tells them that the young fisherman became a fish.
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