Joseph R. Alila

• Dec-2019
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In the historical fiction novel, A DREAM UNFINISHED, Joseph R Alila (Birthright: a Luo Tragedy) bleeds his satirical pundit's pen to capture a glimpse of political maturity in democratic discourse in Africa, where dictatorial regimes are falling ...

• Jul-2017
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In Joseph R Alila's novel REBELS, set in Kenya's 1970s and early 1980s, a widowed bride (Betty Kinda), flees from the custody of her parents on realizing that her fate is in the hands of her in-laws, who must give her a replacement husband before the...

• Jan-2017
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In JR Alila's "A FISHY MATTER," by a single unusual act, a beautiful witch, Kala, unsettles decades of peace between residents of Korondo Ridge and their neighbors on Osure Ridge. Obera of Korondo Ridge is an unhappy woman: every Friday evening, her ...

• Apr-2012
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In MAYA, Joseph R Alila, author of "Birthright (a Luo Tragedy)," brings yet another narrative about the lives of ordinary people with human flaws, from which each of them can only run away, or ignore, at his or her own peril.Maya Boone faces a legal ...

• Apr-2012
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In JR Alila's NOT ON MY SKIN, the all-American Harmony City is not exactly harmonious. Individualism, prejudice and arms-length neighborliness greet Ochome--an alien poet and suburbanite, who has staked out his evenings in one of the city's downtown ...

• Jan-2011
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Author Joseph R. Alila's newest novel, BIRTHRIGHT, is a narrative of how one man's cruel silence over his son's ancestry almost destroys the latter among a people who value bloodlines, protocol, and order in marriage. The battle over birthright in th...

• Dec-2009
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Billionaire American businessman Chief Chuki is a notable within the American high society and a venerable name in the African nation of Goldia, where he holds the highest honorary title of Chief among his Oyi people. When Chief Chuki gets entangled ...

• Nov-2009
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In Mud Valley Church, the evangelizing wonders of the Church Choir have become both a blessing and a minor headache. The growth in card-carrying membership and church attendance explode overnight. That is the blessing. The headache is the charismatic...

• Oct-2009
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In Joseph R. Alila's THE THIRTEENTH WIDOW, a one-sided war between two boys (Omolo and Tom) in middle school turns tragic in their middle age as Chief Omolo's secret acts not only drive Tom Okoth Oloo to his grave, but also unleash a viral plague tha...

• Jun-2009
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In the historical novel, THE LUO DREAMERS' ODYSSEY: From the Sudan to American Power, a journey that started more than five centuries ago in the Sudan has ended in the White House. Along the way, a child and a troubled dreamer, Ajwang' the Dreamer (a...

• Apr-2008
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A young Pastor, Rew Smith, leads the affluent Oakpound New Hope Church, in which things appear to be well, but his church has a deep spiritual problem: His church suffers from a shortage of love. His church lacks a nurturing spirit for the undoctrina...

• Apr-2008
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In the novella WHISPER TO MY ACHING HEART, novelist Joseph R. Alila ("The Milayi Curse") tells a story about two eighteenth-century Luo widows who battle against great odds to become mothers of a future people. In this moving romantic story, a young ...

• Jul-2007
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In Joseph R. Alila's anthropological spiritual novel, THE WISE ONE OF RAMOGILAND, the arrival of a colonial master in Kenya presents a new spiritual reality to a very religious people, who quickly adapt to the new spiritual situation in the land. Now...

• Jun-2007
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When a poor orphan, Charles Milayi, excels in his placement examinations out of middle school, Father James O'Kilghor (a White Priest) finds himself as the keeper of a secret involving members of two African sub-clans (Jamokos and Milayis) locked in ...

• Feb-2007
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It is Sunset on Polygamy in Luoland. A near-fatal crisis pits polygamous Jim and younger wives against the hyperjealous first wife, Felicia the Nyadendi, a master of intrigues, who engineers a home-wide mutiny against him. Mutiny ends, and a surge of...