This Woman
is Dangerous
Biography of
Kola Boof |
Called "the African Garbo" by The New York
Times and acclaimed for the modern African works
Flesh and the Devil, Long
Train to the Redeeming Sin and Nile
River Woman, Egyptian-Sudanese-American
novelist and poet KOLA BOOF was forced to save
her American citizenship in 2002 by admitting to being the former
mistress of terrorist OSAMA BIN LADEN (1996)...a relationship
that Kola Boof insists was against her will. At no time in
history has Ms. Boof referred to herself as a "sex slave",
but the U.S. Media has often falsely reported this along
with other lies about the author. In a 2-part interview
with MSNBC NEWS (WATCH
VIDEO) Ms. Boof stated that she has never been anyone's
"sex slave" and refused to be called one. In the late 1990's,
Kola Boof was a secret agent performing spy missions for the SPLA
(notably Operation Miuokda). In
2007, Kola Boof won her first major writing award from of all
places, Stockholm, Sweden, the 2007 Woman to Woman
Swedish Writer's Pen for Boof's Non-fiction article
"I Am My Own Daughter" in OTTAR MAGAGINE, and headlined
a triumphant reading at the prestigious Schomburg Center in N.Y.
Noted PRINCETON critic Kam Williams chose Ms.
Boof's autobiography Diary of a Lost Girl
as the 2006 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
(SEE STORY), and in 2008, officials of the South Sudanese government appointed Kola Boof National Chairwoman of the United States Branch of the SSPP Peace Organization, serving under President Francis Bok and Commanders in Sudan--BF Bankie and Deng Ajak.
Despite the U.S. Media's unprofessional jokes about Boof's name
and their mis-reporting of the details of her involvement with
Osama Bin Laden, noted N.Y. University Professor and writer Derrick
Bell has called Boof "a brilliantly gifted writer", and
the legendary Nigerian Scholar and critic Chinweizu
in 2005 wrote a letter to Chinua Achebe and Toni Morrison
heralding Boof as "Africa's most important new novelist". Stephen
Elliott, author of Happy Baby and Looking
Forward to It, has said that Boof "writes like a singer"
and The New York Times praised her work as, "earthy,
angry and alluring." Boof was famously attacked by journalist
Peter Bergen in 2006, but comments he made about
the veracity of her autobiography were quickly proven incorrect (SEE
STORY). In America, Boof has been widely criticized
by journalists and fellow liberal Democrats for her PRO-America/PRO-Africa/ANTI-Arab
Muslim political stance and has been labeled a "Jew Lover." Additionally, the author has suffered ridiculous accusations of being a "cannibal," "mind-controlled by the CiA," and the subject of Internet troll websites that distort Ms. Boof's history and post lies about her comments and writings.
All controversies aside, Kola Boof is essentially a novelist and poet. Kola Boof has been featured in Harper's Literary Magazine, and interviewed by MSNBC NEWS, FOX
NEWS, GMTV (UK), BNN Television
(Netherlands) and was featured on CNN SHOWBIZ TODAY
and in TIME MAGAZINE. A documentary about
Kola Boof's life and work which features footage with her children
is also available online (WATCH
VIDEO).
Born
on the Nile River in Omdurman, Sudan…Naima Bint Harith(Kola Boof) came
to the United States after her parents, Egyptian archeologist Harith
Bin Farouk and his only wife, Jiddi, (a charcoal Gisi-Waaq of Somalia's
Oromo nomads), were murdered in Kola's presence for having spoken out
against slavery and the oppression of Black Africans under the rule of
Sudan's Arab-Islamic political factions. Kola Boof, who was born on
March 3, 1972 at 2:14 in the afternoon, (according to the Government of
Sudan birth records which are disputed by Boof's Egyptian family who
say she was born in 1969), was put up for adoption by her Egyptian
grandmother, Najet Kolbookek, because the grandmother felt that Kola's
skin color was too dark for inclusion in her father's Arabic family.
Boof was sent to England to live with an Ethiopian family, but they
soon rejected the child as well…because they feared she might be "a
witch." They complained that Naima was just "too smart, too talkative"
for a girl child. She was let for adoption again…and placed this time
with an African-American family in Washington, D.C.'s lower class
neighborhood, Anacostia Park.
The Black
Americans welcomed young Naima with open arms and the author found her
sanctuary. Says Kola Boof today, "I knew that I was special and that I
had been placed with very special people in a very special paradise. I
felt that something magical was going to happen. You must understand
that the Black Americans are very magical people-because their hearts
are broken."
Unfortunately, Kola Boof's initial life as the child of Black Americans
was not all peaches and cream. The author had to adjust to having her
hair straightened ("Which I deeply resented for many years, but now I
like it"). She also had to learn English, which was difficult, and she
credits the soap opera, "Another World", as being her main teacher (*she became a ghost writer for "Days of Our Lives"
and two other soaps in 2006). She had to deal with the self-hatred of
the Black American community, the experiences of which are so riveting
and dramatic that they held me, Yi Nee Ling, spellbound as she
recounted them in graphic detail in her upcoming memoir, DIARY OF A LOST GIRL, (the book is now available at Amazon.Com).
Kola Boof says she became a writer because of women like Toni Morrison,
Alice Walker, Gayl Jones, Gloria Naylor, Nawal el Sadaawi and…the late
white author, Jaqueline Susann. Boof says, "Valley of the Dolls was the
first book I ever read. It's not literature, many consider it trash,
but that book got me addicted to reading. Then I found Toni
Morrison's The Bluest Eye…and
that changed my life. It planted art inside me and it possessed me,
because at fourteen, it was the first time that I had heard somebody
tell the truth in America."
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Of
equal importance, Kola Boof became a "WOMANIST"...Alice Walker's now
famous term that signifies a sensuous kind of black feminism. Along
with rejecting the media labeling her a "sex slave", Boof also rejected
the term "Strong Black Woman". She insists, "I am the LIVING
WOMAN...not a strong black woman. I live my life, and there are times
when I am very weak, times when I need my children's support or the
love and understanding of a man. I always need GOD, I need black women
friends. So I am not comfortable with that blanket label--strong black
woman. Black women have been unfairly demonized by White Supremacist
Culture and we are called 'Strong' as a way of not including us
alongside other women. The purpose is to breed blacks out of the land
by disallowing the black woman being acknowledged, and I'm against
that. I truly believe that the Black woman is the meteor that is coming
to this earth. And she is certainly the mother of the human race...but
more importantly...she is the mother of the Black race and the Authentic Black Man.
It's because of African beliefs like these that the White Media in
America despises me and constantly lies on me...and because my loyalty
is to my WOMB and not to Black men, who basically have betrayed the
Black woman, I have also had problems with black men not
respecting the justified clarity that pervades my literary
works."
On April 9th, 2003 at the UNITED
NATIONS in Switzerland, an investigative human rights report named Kola
Boof as one of several Sudanese writers-journalists to have been
ordered "fatwa beheading"
Death Threats forced the author into U.S. government protection and have been a defining feature in her literary career. For many years Boof has been forced to live in hiding
and had to assume a range of false identities while in hiding
that caused reporters to believe she didn't exist, but Boof says she
didn't want to be found or interviewed.
Kola Boof is the mother of two sons and a professional cook. She
hopes to someday make films about the lives of black
women. In 2007, she takes a breather from "literary fiction"
with the release of a hip hop Pop Novel Virgins In the Beehive. Additional information about Kola Boof can be found at RARE PHOTOS, the African American Literary Club, BlackNews.Com, HARPERS magazine, and BEST POEMS.
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In January 2006, Kola Boof's autobiography DIARY OF A LOST GIRL,
was released in the U.S. The memoir brilliantly chronicles Ms. Boof's
experiences with Osama Bin Laden, female genital circumcision, her work
as a spy for the SPLA and growing up in both Sudan-Egypt and as the
child of Black Americans in the United States. Click here for more details.
To read Kola Boof's powerful press statement from 2003, regarding
Osama Bin Laden, please read the unedited
statement here.
