User:Samokello

Sam Okello was born in Kenya. He went to schools in Uganda, Kenya and the United States.

A riveting storyteller, he brings the ferocity of his pastoral training to the hardhitting pages of his gripping books. He tackles issues that consume the Africans at home--and those of the Diaspora: Racism. Poverty. Defeatism. Tribalism. Nepotism.

He has recently written a political thriller with one of Kenya's best-known movers and shakers of the Kenyatta and Moi era, Ms. Marianne Briner-Mattern. In this book, Sam and Marianne tell a chilling story about the genesis of Kenya's corruption and how the vice is steadily grinding the engine of the nation to a halt. The book will be out in June of 2006.

Sam Okello is also the author of A Crown of Fire, I Watched an American Sunset, The Night Bob Died, Lulu's Grip, and two other thrillers in the works, titled: The White Girl, and Her Excellency.

He is the founder and CEO of Sahel Books Inc. And he has managed to turn his books into bestsellers among the Africans of the Diaspora. His goal is to eventually turn Sahel into a conduit for publishing books by Africans...to be read and loved by the world.

He lives in the United States with his lovely wife Hellen, and their two rambunctious sons, Garrie and Prince.