There is a really revolting development coming through and getting enforced, without any words spoken by the poorest of Ugandan society on all levels. Geez, Where in the fucking world are a lot of very fucking intelligent but dirt poor, very low standing people, descended from kings that are too nuanced to survive and then flopped far too much? When someone who was the professor's daughter called Rita Turner first found Akim in the trash, she saw that development coming into her own eyes.
Thus, before she returned to Africa, she has already lost both of her parents to a disease called tuberculosis when she was a teenager. Even by the time they died, she's a chimney sweep in cruddy Wilmington.