Africa in Poetry Week

To My Friends in the Diaspora:

In our apathy-in tragic apathy,
We watched between mouthfulls of corn and peanuts
As demented women, mere bones, wasted away
Fried by the hot noontime sun
In the simmering sand dunes of the Sahel.

How could we have cared?
How could we have cared about distant events
In Faraway African wilderness?
We watched in our tragic melancholy
As child mothers of Virunga, and Shaba
were caught in the quagmire and swampy squalor
Of Disease and War.

Africa crumbles as her demented son AU,
Dines off Selasie's golden platters
Unconcened.
Aa...a! AU, Africa's son:
AU fetted in the spirit of Non-interference
As Virunga erupted in violence,
And Azania mourned her dead
Victims of Ayaki, perhaps a curse of her gems.
AU adjourned for dessert in the Founding Heroes Hall
As the Sahelean sand
Baked her destitute mothers and Children.
And the Atlantic glowed red with victimsof oil and gems
As AU supped in the full glare of his fallen heroes.

Where is our Africanness?
That Africa should crumble
As you and I in the Diaspora blog
In empyt words from the comfort
Of our alien hideouts;
Quick to change our Cable channels
to football or a Soapy Opera
Whenever a destitute child
Visits our comfort zones.

We saw them;
You and I saw them;
The world saw them,
But our Apathy had turned tragic.

Joseph Alila.

(Author: Thirteen Curses on Mother Africa (A poem), ISBN 978-14303-1592-6)
http://jaramogialila.blogspot.com

Africa in Poetry Week

To My Friends in the Diaspora:

In our apathy-in tragic apathy,
We watched between mouthfulls of corn and peanuts
As demented women, mere bones, wasted away
Fried by the hot noontime sun
In the simmering sand dunes of the Sahel.
How could we have cared?
How could we have cared about distant events
In Faraway African wilderness?

We watch in our tragic melancholy
As child mothers of Virunga, and Shaba
are caught in the quagmire and swampy squalor
Of Disease and War.

Africa crumbles as her demented son AU,
Dines off Selasie's golden platters
Unconcened;

Aa...a! AU, Africa's son:
AU fettes in the spirit of Noninterferences
As Virunga erupted in violence,
And Azania mourned her dead
Victims of Ayaki, a curse of gems.

AU adjourned for dessert in the Founding Heroes Hall
As the Sahelean sand
baked her destitute mothers and Children.
And the Atlantic glows red with victimsof oil and gems
As AU supped in the full glare of its fallen heroes.

Where is our Africanness?
That Africa should crumble
As you and I in the Diaspora blog
In empyt words from the comfort
Of our alien hideouts;
Quick to change our Cable channels
to football or a Soapy Opera
Whenever a destitute child
Visits our comfort zones.

We saw them;
You and I saw them;
The world saw them,
But our Apathy had turned tragic.


Joseph Alila.
(Author: Thirteen Curses on Mother Africa (A poem), ISBN 978-14303-1592-6)
http://jaramogialila.blogspot.com

SUNSET ON POLYGAMY

Fans,
Among the Luo, polygamy was not just the practice of one man living with many wives, but was practiced with a spiritual touch. A Luo man, once married could not have constructed a house or started a home in the absence of his wife (and male children) lest she be locked out of such a home.
A Luo man married to many wives couldn't have breaken the soil, seeded the soil, harvested his fields, given away his children in marriage, or at death burried in the absence of his First Wife (Mikayi). In any of these special times in a polygamists home, sex played a spiritual role, as opposed to leisure or procreation, at the center of which the first wife and the man were the stars.
A man who ignored the first wife would soon find himself living in perilous times. That was the situation in which Jim Okech, the hero in Joseph Alila's Sunset on Polygamy (1-42426684-5), found himself after his failure torealize that a First Wife who had reached menopose, and therefore moody, required extra attention because her spiritual role never ceased with the end of her procreative role.

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Thank you for visiting,

Joseph R. Alila

Alila's Thirteen Curses on Mother Africa

Fans,

"Thirteen Curses on Mother Africa" (978-143031592-6) Is Here

Let Afraca's drums vibrate
Let Ong'ombe play his big horn
In tune with the master drummers skillful hands
Let the Nyatiti release its sound
Because the songwriter has crafted new verses.
Let the gongs and cymbals sound;
Let the ochestra sing to the birth of Africa's new Artist;
Let them sing
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Joseph R Alila (Author: Sunset on Polygamy ISBN: 1424166845)

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Alila's Sunset on Polygamy

Fans,

My (Joseph Alila's) Novel "Sunset on Polygamy" (ISBN: 1-4216684-5 ; 13 ISBN: 978-142416684-8) is here. The official release date is April 2, 2007. Get a copy of this engaging book. Try to get your copy through http://www.publishamerica.com/; http://www.barnes&noble.com/; or http://www.amazon.com/.
Your local bookstore (B&N) will call it in for you, if that is what you prefer. Google 'CAMPUSI' and find out the sense of worldwide appeal Alila's rare exposition on polygamy, romance, culture, and the tragedy in (AIDS) epidemic. CAMPUSI (www.campusi.comm) will provide you with the nearest supplier and a sense of price before you place your order. Get your copy. Remember, 2nd-hand books will be more epensive than PublishAmerica, B&N or Amazon retail price.

Easter is here.

Joseph R Alila

Book Release

Dr. Joseph R. Alila, the author of the novel, Sunset on Polygamy (PublishAmerica), who gave us a rare peek into the mysterious world of polygamy and romantic experiences of an African polygamist and his modern perils in (AIDS), is at it again in the long-awaited poetry collection, THIRTEEN CURSES ON MOTHER AFRICA (ISBN: 978-14303-1592-6).
This eye-opening collection of poems is published by Lulu (March 2007) (www.lulu.com) the world's fastest-growing provider of print-on-demand books. Thirteen Curses on Mother Africa is available at Lulu Storefront (www.lulu.com) and will be available Worldwide in such online stores and outletshttp://www.amazon.com as www.barnesandnoble.com, and www.amazon.com, by May 2007.
In these mournful yet spiritually uplifting poems, Alila offers us a critical satirical exposition in verse of the causes of the maladies that continue to ail the African Continent: He mentally walks the reader through Addis, the symbolic home base to the lethargic African Union and the absent African man and Leader, to the Longsuffering (Sahelian) African woman. He then mourns the ravishing famine and debilitating disease epidemics in AIDS and Malaria of the East, Central and South, before crying over the Curses in Oil and Gems in the West and Center. If the readers have any tears left, they will shed them as the author mourns senseless brother-on-brother wars and the precipitous and dehumanizing and shameful child labor, that is seen all over Africa.
The common themes of Ebony’s deceitful Alien Lovers, the curses in Globalization and Free Trade, institutional corruption, and the African dictator, are not spared by the poet’s pen. Notable numbers in this thematically-current, poetry collection are The Longsuffering African woman, The Thirteen Curses, and Beautiful Ebony, Mother of All Mankind.
Joseph R Alila
Schenectady, New York Tele: (518) 393 9981 e-mail: jramogi@hotmail.com
Blogs: www.ramogialila@blogspot.com ; www.ramogialilablog@yahoo.co.uk

Alila's Thirteen Curses on Mother Africa

Joseph Alila's collection of poems, "Thirteen Causes on Mother Africa" (ISBN: 97814303-1592-6 Storefront) is open at Lulu (March 2007) (www.lulu.com)
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Joseph R. Alila