THE LUO DREAMERS' ODYSSEY: FROM THE SUDAN TO AMERICAN POWER

I am Author and Novelist Joseph R. Alila. In my seventh novel, THE LUO DREAMERS’ ODYSSEY: FROM THE SUDAN TO AMERICAN POWER, I present a narrative about a spiritual journey of the Luo of eastern Africa to President Obama’s White House. In this historical fiction, I have attempted to capture in spirit the perils of the Luo people in their spiritual journey from Egypt to the White House—a journey that takes 600 years against incredible odds and outlives many prophecies and dreams. In the carefully crafted narrative that starts with one Ajwang’ Opodho in the old Sudan to one Hassan Opodho in Kenya, onward to one President Hassan Ajwang’ in America, I visit (and inspired by) the spiritual events that surrounded the infamous Luo Bead of Passion that caused the great schism that scattered the Luo tribes throughout East and Central Africa.
In reading THE LUO DREAMERS’ ODYSSEY (https://www.createspace.com/3373494), I hope that the reader realizes that the timeless narrative in this historical novel is as much about a tortuous physical journey through time and space of the Luo peoples, as it is about their spiritual passage an earthly destination. This novel, like most of my novels, offers the reader an opportunity to glean into the Luo mind and complex anthropological space that include such practices as polygamy and widow inheritance.