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“In a small Malawian village there lived a young boy who was called Kapangama. Now Kapangama was not his real name. His real name was Samuel, but everyone in the village of Kapenda thought that Samuel was hopeless, so they all called him Kapangama.

His mother left him right after he was born, so his father married another woman. All the villagers knew that the new wife would not want to keep Kapangama. They knew that it was hopeless for him. He was the hopeless one – Kapangama.

His mother was gone. His father’s new wife didn’t want him. Kapangama could not even go to live with his grandparents because they were already dead. Since there was no other place for him, it was decided that he would go to live with his step-grandmother across the corn fields.