Novelist Kola Boof In Person September 16, 2007

Born Naima Bint Harith, Kola Boof was one of the first writers to alert America about the catastrophe that continues to unwind in her homeland of Sudan. The highest ranking woman in the SPLA, Boof was an early advocate against the Biblically-proportioned plagues afflicting that once-beautiful country: genocide, starvation, rampant rape, and predation by modern-day slavers.

Kola Boof's presentation will encompass entertainment and cover material from the four books of hers available in America presently. Her autobiography, controversial for her account of an affair with a pre-9/11 Osama bin Laden and her views on race, also contains beautifully evoked chapters on her childhood in Sudan, before she was ripped away from her homeland as a young girl after the murder of her parents, who opposed the beginning rumblings of slavery and genocide in Khartoum.

Boof, who describes herself as a womanist writer in the tradition of Alice Walker, Toni Morrison and Maya Angelou, has also been dubbed "the African Garbo" by the New York Times and is considered very controversial for her use of nudity and her war on "colorism" in the black community. Boof will also read from her shocking and gripping collection of short fiction, Long Train to the Redeeming Sin: Stories of African Women, her beautiful and angry landmark book of poetry, Nile River Woman, and her epic novel Flesh and the Devil, all published by Door of Kush Press.

ADMISSION IS FREE