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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Bragman Media N.Y. (917) 776-7827 Writer Kola Boof to Headline at New York's Schomburg Center--Sept. 16th Award Winning Egyptian-Sudanese-American novelist-poet Kola Boof, the former mistress of Osama Bin Laden, is scheduled to give her first ever book signing in New York City on Sunday, Sept. 16th. New York University professor Derrick Bell has called her “a brilliantly gifted writer.” Princeton critic Kam Williams has rated her autobiography "Diary of a Lost Girl" The Best Book of 2006 and the Swedish Women's Press just awarded her with the Gudrun Schyman Pen in Feminist Prose. Now, New York City will get a rare chance to see one of America's most important new literary authors at a book reading at the prestigious Schomburg Center in Harlem on Sunday, September 16 at 4 pm in the Schomburg's Langston Hughes Auditorium. 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 despite the "sexism" of detractors within the group, 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. A new poem by Boof in honor of activist-writer Ward Churchill entitled "Indigenism: White Man/Bare Chest" will also be read (see link to poem below). Boof says that Ward Churchill was totally wrong for his comments about the victims of 911, but that the University of Colorado is equally wrong for "persecuting" such an important artist. Often maligned by the press, Kola Boof, who has never called herself a "sex slave" and refuses to be called one until Patty Hearst is called the same, plans to discuss the media's mis-reporting of her experiences with Osama Bin Laden, her upcoming hip hop novel receiving praise from rap legend Kanye West, the racist accusations by black activists that she is a "Jew lover" and her rage over the way Drusilla (Victoria Rowell) was treated by "Young and the Restless" (Boof has served as a ghost writer for several daytime soaps). Miss Boof will take questions from the audience and sign books and take photos with fans. The program starts at 4 p.m. Link to Boof's poem for Ward Churchill: http://proofmagazine.i8.com/about_1.html BRAGMAN MEDIA N.Y. Mark Fogarty (917) 776-7827 Email: copyeditor@post.com Ms. Boof's Web Site: http://www.kolaboof.com |
