The Milayi Curse

When a poor orphan, Charles Milayi, excels in his placement examinations out of middle school, Father James O'Kilghor (a White Priest) finds himself as the keeper of a secret involving members of two African sub-clans (Jamokos and Milayis) locked in a century-old, spiritual cold war in which bigotry and pride are served cold in every verbal discourse. In "The Milayi Curse," Joseph Alila (the Author of "Sunset on Polygamy," and "Thirteen Curses on Mother Africa") poses a fundamental spiritual and moral question: Should Father O'Kilghor have revealed the secret to demonstrate to his bigoted Parishioners the good-heartedness of David Jamoko, the man who crossed the clan-divide to secretly sponsor a Milayi boy (Charles) at a time when his own son (Thomas) could not manage to graduate out of middle school?