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A moonless, starless sky : ordinary women and men fighting extremism in Africa
- Title
- A moonless, starless sky : ordinary women and men fighting extremism in Africa / Alexis Okeowo.
- Author
- Okeowo, Alexis
- Publication
- New York, NY : Hachette Books, [2017]
- ©2017
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Details
- Description
- xv, 240 pages : illustrations; 21 cm
- Summary
- Presents accounts of everyday men and women living amidst war and extremism. -- Provided by publisher.
- In 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. 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. -- Provided by publisher.
- Subject
- Extremists > Africa, Sub-Saharan
- Abduction > Uganda
- Forced marriage > Uganda
- Slavery > Mauritania
- Abduction > Nigeria
- Islamic fundamentalism > Nigeria
- Islamic fundamentalism > Somalia
- Human rights workers > Africa
- Political activists > Africa
- Abduction
- Extremists
- Forced marriage
- Human rights workers
- Islamic fundamentalism
- Political activists
- Slavery
- Africa
- Africa, Sub-Saharan
- Mauritania
- Nigeria
- Somalia
- Uganda
- Note
- "October 2017"--Title page verso.
- Contents
- Uganda : an LRA love story -- Mauritania : not restrained by chains -- Nigeria : no regrets -- Somalia : war and basketball -- Uganda : in a perfect life -- Mauritania : caravan of freedom -- Nigeria : nobody rescued them -- Somalia : the last two stadiums in Mogadishu.
- Call Number
- Sc D 17-2500
- ISBN
- 9780316382939
- 0316382930
- 9781478941200 (canceled/invalid)
- 9780316382915 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2017020071
- 40027523174
- 40027526189
- OCLC
- 972386204
- Author
- Okeowo, Alexis, author.
- Title
- A moonless, starless sky : ordinary women and men fighting extremism in Africa / Alexis Okeowo.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Hachette Books, [2017]
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 4002752317440027526189
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 17-2500