JR Alila's newest Novel, THE LUO DREAMERS' ODYSSEY (From the Sudan to American Power), is on sale from the Publishers, Createspace, https://www.createspace.com/3373494
The Novel is available from http://www.amazon.com shortly.
Join me in sharing in the incredible journey that has defined the people from Sudan to the Diaspora.
This book shed some light on some Questions: Who are the Luo? What is their Religion? What is the name of the Luo God? Why are the Luo so fearless? Who wields power in a polygamous Luo home? What caused the Luo to disperse from the Sudan? Did you know that the Luo are highly religious? What is the Luo bead of Passion? What role does a dog play in Luo worship? What does it mean if a Luo gave you a dog? Did you know that the oldest know Luo ancestor came from the river, or germinated from the soil? What is the role of prophets among the Luo? What is the role of Luo Council? What are the three pillars of Luo Leadership? Why is it essential that pillars be born by three different people? Did you know that the Present US President is a Luo? What is the role of Worship in Luo Leadership?
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
WHAT AILS KENYA?
If you asked me where Kenya would be, politically, next month, my answer to you would be "I can't tell." Here is why. We have no properly constituted Electoral body, the contestants have become the referees in parliament. We have no Leader of Government Business because we have no properly elected government; what we have is "a coalition of the unwilling," that is sitting in wait for 2012, guzzling our shilling at a drunken pace, readying for battle.
Aren't we Unthankful?
We are a people linked to the current "Emperor and Guardian of the Citadel" by an umbilical chord. The President of the United States, who is a Kenyan through his father, could have chosen to be Kenyan at eighteen years, but decided to be an American. That is how close Kenyans are to the kill, yet we are starving.This man, President Barack Obama, must be grieving in shame. He has killed a Hippo, a very fat one, and has nowhere in Kenya to land with his kill because our so-called Kenyan leaders are feasting over a skeletal carcass of a poorly fed cow from somewhere in Nyanza.
How funny.
Amid the laughable spectre of public moral rot, our people are waiting for cereal imports, some of which are rotting in Mombasa---unfit to be consumed because of an explosion in the high-seas that generated lots of a toxic compound known as Aluminium phosphate. Now if you have some knowledge of chemistry like me, you may sleep easy on your empty stomach, knowing that, though you are hungry, some chemist at the Government Chemist in Nairobi has saved you from consuming bad corn! But you are not me, and you must be smelling corruption in the convoluted explanation of why you have no corn to buy. That the turmoil of early 2008 that displaced farmers to refugee camps from where they have been unable to escape back to their farms, gives you no reason hope at all! What do you smell?
Meanwhile your leaders are printing the "skeletal cow" known as the Kenyan Shilling in such huge numbers that the Minister for Finance cannot count it with modern computers, let alone budget and account for it, and his royalty is blaming computers made by man and typewriters attended to by man for the endemic typos in the budget!
Yes, a Kenyan has killed a hippo, and is willing to bring the fat carcass home, but has nowhere to land with his kill in Kenya because we are busy looting the Shilling which is 80 times skinnier than our adventurous son's American Dollar. Kenyan's, Ramogi must be turning in his grave, Ajuma must be turning in his grave, Kenyatta must be cursing everyone from the grave yonder. Watoto wa simba si simba, in our case!
The last I heard was the brave Kenyan hunter from the Citadel of wealth and Power has decided to land in Ghana, unload then proceed to the land of Cleopatra and Mark Antony. He could alternately have landed in Juba, Sudan, were it not for the turmoil there, and this mourning Kenyan's voice could have cheered, not because he is unpatriotic, but because listening to history is preferable to rewarding rot.
What shame on us Kenyans!
JR Alila
Aren't we Unthankful?
We are a people linked to the current "Emperor and Guardian of the Citadel" by an umbilical chord. The President of the United States, who is a Kenyan through his father, could have chosen to be Kenyan at eighteen years, but decided to be an American. That is how close Kenyans are to the kill, yet we are starving.This man, President Barack Obama, must be grieving in shame. He has killed a Hippo, a very fat one, and has nowhere in Kenya to land with his kill because our so-called Kenyan leaders are feasting over a skeletal carcass of a poorly fed cow from somewhere in Nyanza.
How funny.
Amid the laughable spectre of public moral rot, our people are waiting for cereal imports, some of which are rotting in Mombasa---unfit to be consumed because of an explosion in the high-seas that generated lots of a toxic compound known as Aluminium phosphate. Now if you have some knowledge of chemistry like me, you may sleep easy on your empty stomach, knowing that, though you are hungry, some chemist at the Government Chemist in Nairobi has saved you from consuming bad corn! But you are not me, and you must be smelling corruption in the convoluted explanation of why you have no corn to buy. That the turmoil of early 2008 that displaced farmers to refugee camps from where they have been unable to escape back to their farms, gives you no reason hope at all! What do you smell?
Meanwhile your leaders are printing the "skeletal cow" known as the Kenyan Shilling in such huge numbers that the Minister for Finance cannot count it with modern computers, let alone budget and account for it, and his royalty is blaming computers made by man and typewriters attended to by man for the endemic typos in the budget!
Yes, a Kenyan has killed a hippo, and is willing to bring the fat carcass home, but has nowhere to land with his kill in Kenya because we are busy looting the Shilling which is 80 times skinnier than our adventurous son's American Dollar. Kenyan's, Ramogi must be turning in his grave, Ajuma must be turning in his grave, Kenyatta must be cursing everyone from the grave yonder. Watoto wa simba si simba, in our case!
The last I heard was the brave Kenyan hunter from the Citadel of wealth and Power has decided to land in Ghana, unload then proceed to the land of Cleopatra and Mark Antony. He could alternately have landed in Juba, Sudan, were it not for the turmoil there, and this mourning Kenyan's voice could have cheered, not because he is unpatriotic, but because listening to history is preferable to rewarding rot.
What shame on us Kenyans!
JR Alila
Saturday, May 23, 2009
KENYA IN AMERICA'S CROSS AIRS
Kenya is in President Obama's cross airs. Obama will be visiting Africa (Egypt and Ghana) without stepping into Kenya, one of his ancestral homes, because Kenya is in political disorder. There are endless squabbles between Primiere Raila's ODM and President Kibaki's PNU. Once again President Kikwete is in the picture, receiving news from Washington to Nairobi. At issue is tackling rampant corruption, and completion of constitutional reforms mandated under Anna's watch early 2008. Both ODM and PNU are dancing around the matter with each side proposing dissimilar constitutional changes. ODM is pushing for a Parliamentary System of Government lead by a Prime Minister. PNU now prefers a hybrid in which the President is paramount, with the Prime Minister supervising the government. Because of PNU-ODM schism, Kenya has no Leader of Government Business---a role the Speaker of the National Assembly currently plays. Likewise Kenya has no permanent electoral body. In the background is a shaky Somalia that shares an unstable border with Kenya; something that worries world security experts, and Americans in particular.
Can President Obama's America push Kenyan leaders to embrace government reforms?
JR Alila
http://www.eastandard.net/InsidePage.php?id=1144014989&cid=4&ttl=Obama, Kikwete secret talks on Kenya
Can President Obama's America push Kenyan leaders to embrace government reforms?
JR Alila
http://www.eastandard.net/InsidePage.php?id=1144014989&cid=4&ttl=Obama, Kikwete secret talks on Kenya
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