When most people think of an African Prince, they are largely influenced by a little-known Eddie Murphy movie made in the 1980s and its 2021 sequel. The lives of African Princes are nothing like what Hollywood depicts in movies like Coming To America and Black Panther. Lucius Basotho, one of many Princes living in the Kingdom of Lesotho, often laughs at these notions. The rest of the world continues to believe all kinds of bullshit told by the Hollywood machine and the media when it comes to the lives of African Princes. What a load of crock...
For starters, in the Kingdom of Lesotho, the King has a largely ceremonial role and the Prime Minister is the true leader of the Government of Lesotho. Prince Lucius is the proud owner of three hundred acres of land and four hundred heads of cattle. The young man's body bears scars which he earned while defending his land and his cattle from lions, leopards and hyenas. Last month, Prince Lucius and his herdsmen had to fight an entire hyena clan. It won't be long until their luck runs out. Prince Lucius has grown tired of life in the Kingdom of Lesotho and is considering moving abroad. The tall, slender and dark-skinned, bearded young African man wants to make some changes...
Walking around the City of Maseru, Prince Lucius is just another face among the nearly four hundred thousand souls who call it home. Everywhere the Prince looked, dark-skinned men and women of all shapes and sizes went about their daily business. Merchants, schoolteachers, artists, politicians, vendors, hustlers, everyone did their thing. Prince Lucius went to the British Embassy the other day and successfully obtained a visa to travel to the United Kingdom. Now, all Prince Lucius has to do is save up enough money for the trip. Of course, being a penniless young man with a hereditary title means Prince Lucius has to be smart in order to get that money. What's a brother to do?
Prince Lucius father, the late Prince Francisco Basotho, made sure his son learned how to read and write. Prince Lucius is fluent in English, French, Spanish and Dutch. He completed secondary school and had high marks compared to the other students. At the age of nineteen, Prince Lucius is looking at a lifetime of tending to the herds, taking care of the land and keeping both brigands and wild animals off his property. The young African man wants more than that. That's why he's heading to the Catholic Mission...
"Be careful with that witch," said Prince Lucius good friend, Tabor the herdsman. Tall and slim, with a bald head and a goatee, Tabor looked much younger than his twenty three years. After marrying his sweetheart, the tall and curvy, big-bottomed farmgirl named Roseline, Tabor has finally achieved marriage and fatherhood. The couple was blessed with twin daughters. Prince Lucius has come to rely on his good friend Tabor, a peerless master of the herds. Tabor was the one who saved Prince Lucius life during the fight with the hyena clan, not too long ago...
"Of course I will be careful," Prince Lucius said to Tabor. The two young African men sat under a baobab tree, at the edge of the wilderness separating the City of Maseru from the veldt. In the vastness of the veldt, lions, leopards, hyenas, jackals and African wild dogs roam, preying on the elephants, the rhinos, the hippos, the giraffes, the antelopes, the zebras, the buffaloes and the wildebeests, just like in ancient times. Prince Lucius and his good friend Tabor tend the herds and rule the land just like their ancestors have for over a thousand generations...
"I always have to save you from predators," Tabor teased Prince Lucius, who laughed. The two friends playfully wrestled under the tree, and somehow, Tabor ended up on top of Prince Lucius. For as long as Prince Lucius can remember, he's always felt attracted to both women and men. Hell, there was a time when the Prince had a crush on Roseline, the tall, big-booty farmgirl that half the guys in metropolitan Maseru wanted, but Tabor was the one Roseline chose to marry. What Roseline and others don't know is that Prince Lucius also desires Tabor, his stalwart friend...