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A moonless, starless sky: ordinary women and men fighting extremism in Africa

By Alexis , Okeowo

Book information

Publisher
Hachette Books
Year
2017
ISBN
9780316382939, 9781478941200, 9780316382915, 0316382930
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
870 kB (890469 bytes)
Edition
First edition
Pages
xv, 240 pages ; 21 cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52

Description

In the tradition ofBehind the Beautiful ForeversandNothing to Envy, this is a masterful, humane work of literary journalism byNew Yorkerstaff writer Alexis Okeowo--a vivid narrative of Africans, many of them women, who are courageously resisting their continent's wave of fundamentalism.InA Moonless, Starless SkyOkeowo weaves together four narratives that form a powerful tapestry of modern Africa: a young couple, kidnap victims of Joseph Kony's LRA; a Mauritanian waging a lonely campaign against modern-day slavery; a women's basketball team flourishing amid war-torn Somalia; and a vigilante who takes up arms against the extremist group Boko Haram. This debut book by one of America's most acclaimed young journalists illuminates the inner lives of ordinary people doing the extraordinary--lives that are too often hidden, underreported, or ignored by the rest of the world.

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