The rains came late three years running. My neighbour says it is fate, my son says it is the climate. Can both be right?

Three years now the rains near Kumasi have come late, and my cocoa trees flowered and dropped their flowers. The old man on the next farm says it is our nkrabea, the destiny each of us brings into the world. He says there is no use fighting it.

My son at university sends me graphs. He says the rains are late because the climate is changing, and that farmers everywhere are seeing the same.

I believe my son's graphs. But my neighbour's answer is not stupid. The graphs tell me why the rains are late everywhere. They do not tell me why my farm was the one that lost its flowers when the farm beyond the river did not.

I read that the philosopher Kwame Gyekye wrote about how Akan thinking accepts natural causes but still asks another question after them. I don't know if I have understood him.

So:

• Are my neighbour and my son answering the same question?
• If they are answering different questions, is one of the questions a bad one?
• When something bad happens to you and not to others, is "why me?" a question with an answer?

I am new to this. Simple words, please.