Taji The Lost Heir

When a devastating flood sweeps through the highlands of Kenya, a four-year-old girl is torn from her family and found clinging to a tree by a kind stranger. Lala, a Giriama woman from the Taita plains, cannot leave the child behind. She names her Taji — meaning crown — and raises her as her own, pouring into her the language, the rhythms, and the warm red-and-white world of the Kenyan coast.For t...