Facing the lion

The book that I"m reading is facing the lion. This story takes place in the African savannah in Kenya. The plot of this story that I have read so far is a boy that tells stories of his life growing up on the savannah. In one story when the boy named Joseph lemesola was a baby he picked up a knife and started bleeding. When he was older he was the only one in his family that had to go to school. Whenever he or someone in his village disobeyed their parents the pinching man would pinch them really hard. Joseph in the beginning of the book came face to face with a lion that killed his brother"s goat. What do you think about this book?