Joseph Alila's "Thirteen Curses on Mother Africa" & Sunset on Polygamy

Dear Nyar Kager,

I am a regular contributor in this forum.

I am the author of the collection of poems Thirteen Curses on Mother Africa (ISBN 97814303-1592-6) listed below, and a previous novel, Sunset on Polygamy (ISBN 1424166845). I believe the messages are urgent and right for your readership.

I am requesting you to publish this content as a favor to this minor author whose intent is that of a Messager of the Times.

 

Dr. Joseph R. Alila, the author of the novel, Sunset on Polygamy (PublishAmerica) ISBN 1424166845, who gave us a rare peek into the mysterious world of polygamy and the 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  http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=858545  and will be available Worldwide in such online stores and outlets http://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 ( ramogialila@blogspot.com )

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