This story highlights the problems that may arise when a person or a group of people strictly adhere to love and loyalty to ones culture and tradition without examining the negative parts of the... More > cultural aspects that are detrimental to certain members of a cultural group. Such adherence may lead to trauma of an individual who is a member of that specific society and culture.< Less
This story highlights the problems that may arise when a person or a group of people strictly adhere to love and loyalty to ones culture and tradition without examining the negative parts of the... More > cultural aspects that are detrimental to certain members of a cultural group. Such adherence may lead to trauma of an individual who is a member of that specific society and culture.< Less
This book has been written as a case study of the creative economy sector of kenya, it is a call into action for an organised management of the products that the intellectual rigour brings... More > sponteneously.< Less
It took two years and countless hours of planning, but finally National Science Foundation GK12 Ph.D fellow and amateur photographer Jared Coyle landed on the ground in Kenya. He had 21 days to learn... More > the culture, to share his knowledge, and to take in the atmosphere of the rural highlands of Kenya.
This memoir is a recounting of the daily sights seen, challenges tackled, excitement experienced, struggles overcome and relationships formed during this whirlwind tour of the land of pineapple, tea and ngwashy.< Less
JR Alila's third novel, THE WISE ON OF RAMOGILAND is a social-political commentary on the professional trials of one fictional spiritual consultant, Nyangi (The Wise One). In her sunset years, The... More > Wise One looks on in pain as her political clients become slaves to corruption. Her anguish is not made any less by the unseemly conducts of her eldest son, and her heir-apparent (Thomas), whose ascendancy as a Seer is long overdue.
In this novel, JR Alila employs mild humor, comedy, and parody to speak to the past, the present and the future of the Luo People of Kenya. This carefully crafted mental tour visits such themes as spirituality, health, marriage, death, politics, wisdom, governance and culture, and even the previously unimaginable circumcision of the Luo man.< Less
JR Alila's third novel, THE WISE ON OF RAMOGILAND is a social-political commentary on the professional trials of one fictional spiritual consultant, Nyangi (The Wise One). In her sunset years, The... More > Wise One looks on in pain as her political clients become slaves to corruption. Her anguish is not made any less by the unseemly conducts of her eldest son, and her heir-apparent (Thomas), whose ascendancy as a Seer is long overdue.
In this novel, JR Alila employs mild humor, comedy, and parody to speak to the past, the present and the future of the Luo People of Kenya. This carefully crafted mental tour visits such themes as spirituality, health, marriage, death, politics, wisdom, governance and culture, and even the previously unimaginable circumcision of the Luo man.< Less
When poor Charles Milayi excels in his middle school examinations, he becomes a beneficiary of a secret hand of providence only known to Father James O’Kilghor (a White priest). As the story... More > unfolds, Father James O'Kilghor finds himself weighed down by the secret as he ministers to bigoted members of two African sub-clans (Jamokos and Milayis), who are locked in a century-old, spiritual cold war in which bigotry and pride are lived and served cold in every verbal discourse.
In THE MILAYI CURSE, Joseph Alila (the Author of "Sunset on Polygamy") poses a fundamental spiritual and moral question: Should Father O’Kilghor publicly have revealed the secret as a demonstration to his prejudiced parishioners that David Jamoko was courageous and a good-hearted man, who crossed the deep divide to secretly sponsor an “enemy” boy (Charles Milayi) at a time when his own son (Thomas Jamoko) could not manage to graduate out of middle school?< Less
When poor Charles Milayi excels in his middle school examinations, he becomes a beneficiary of a secret hand of providence only known to Father James O’Kilghor (a White priest). As the story... More > unfolds, Father James O'Kilghor finds himself weighed down by the secret as he ministers to bigoted members of two African sub-clans (Jamokos and Milayis), who are locked in a century-old, spiritual cold war in which bigotry and pride are lived and served cold in every verbal discourse.
In THE MILAYI CURSE, Joseph Alila (the Author of "Sunset on Polygamy") poses a fundamental spiritual and moral question: Should Father O’Kilghor publicly have revealed the secret as a demonstration to his prejudiced parishioners that David Jamoko was courageous and a good-hearted man, who crossed the deep divide to secretly sponsor an “enemy” boy (Charles Milayi) at a time when his own son (Thomas Jamoko) could not manage to graduate out of middle school?< Less
A JOURNAL OF CULTURE,
COMMEMORATIVE EDITION -AFROETS PRESS 32ND ANNIVERSARY.This journal specifically addresses issues relating to indigenous cultures and its impact on the post modern world. This... More > Summer Spring Issue includes a bonus supplement dedicated to PANAFSTRAG.
EDITOR-PUBLISHER:Roi Kwabena,
GUEST EDITOR:Renèe Ballerini-Sigel
CONTRIBUTORS: Lennox Raphael, Cathy Perry, Nuru El, Dicho Ilunga, Munyaradzi Muzenda, Stewart Brown, Avelino Bambi, Efi Antoniou, Esuseeke Ololade, Milorad Krystanovch, Ras Jahaziel, Mardin Ibrahim, Ishola Williams, Kunijwok Kwawang, ADAMISSIMO, Writers Without Borders, PANAFSTRAG & Africa Speaks.
Contents:ART of Dialogue ,All Are Orphans, Obituaries, Ancient Grace, A Short Story- Hate to Forgiveness,WILL but forced,Africa Speaks ,News update, What they never tell, Children of the Dust, Dwight/Dwrong, other regular features and paintings by the Kenyan born Artist Patrick Wilson Githinji.< Less
