"A Gift for Kinza" is a short story by Paul Bowles written in 1950 and published in the March 1951 issue of Esquire magazine.
The story was published under the title "The Successor" in later collections such as The Hours After Noon (1959, Heinemann) and The Time of Friendship (1967, Holt, Rinehart and Winston).
The younger brother is disaffected and resents his obligation to assist his elder sibling in the operation of the establishment as required by primogeniture.
[4] Literary critic John Ditsky writes: Ali suffers by reason of being a second son, and therefore not his father's heir; this is "crushing injustice".
The story is brought off, as suggested earlier, as well as one of Faulkner's about Negroes or Snopeses displaying their Darwinian capabilities: one wants to intervene; one also has to laugh.