The American Polygamist

Joseph R. Alila was born Kenya. A Chemist by training, he considers creative writing to be a natural consequence of the aging process. Alila has written extensively on his Luo people’s marriages and other cultural practices, holding up a sage’s torch on old Luo traditions. His mournful caution against the practices of polygamy and widow inheritance in the era of the AIDS virus, comes in ＂Sunset on Polygamy＂ and ＂The Thirteenth Widow.＂ J. R. Alila has written extensively on the clashes of modern religions, culture and spirituality in the spiritual novels, ＂The Milayi Curse,＂ ＂The Choirmaster,＂ and ＂Sins of Our Hearts.＂ The novels, ＂Whisper to My Aching Heart,＂ ＂Sunset on Polygamy,＂ ＂Not on My Skin,＂ and ＂The Luo Dreamers’ Odyssey: From the Sudan to American Power,＂ are informative anthropological treatises on people and their physical, spiritual, political, cultural, and social circumstances. THE AMERICAN POLYGAMIST, which is a novel about the infatuation of the rich and powerful with secrecy and keeping good faces even amidst certain danger, is J. R. Alila’s tenth novel.