A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa
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| Rating | : | 4.81 (757 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01N3C2VZE |
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| Number of Pages | : | 165 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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French, author of Everything Under the Heavens. Okeowo writes with beauty and grace. Refreshingly, she does not give in to easy answers. "Evocative and affecting. Clear-eyed, lyrical, observant, and compassionate--reportage at its finest."--Kirkus (starred review) "Finally, finally, finally--a humane, skillful storyteller with sound reporting instincts has dug into the middle of the stories we think we've already heard out of Africa. Okeowo's in-depth, perceptive reporting gives a voice to extraordinarily courageous--and resilient--women and men."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Remarkable. Okeowo is just the kind of reporter we need to hear from when it comes to Africa, the 'new' old world: truthful, accurate, deep."--Hilton Als, Pulitzer
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.. "Absolutely essential reading, period."---Alexandra Fuller, bestselling author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs TonightIn the tradition of Behind the Beautiful Forevers, this is a masterful, humane work of literary journalism by New Yorker staff writer Alexis Okeowo--a vivid narrative of Africans who are courageously resisting their continent's wave of fundamentalism.In A Moonless, Starless Sky Okeowo 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
Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, the Financial Times, Time, and Fortune, among many other publications. Born in Alabama, Okeowo is a graduate of Princeton University. She was based in Lagos, Nigeria from 2012 to 2015, and now lives in Brooklyn, New York.. Alexis Okeowo is a staff writer for the New Yorker and a fellow at the New America Fou