Egyptian-Sudanese American novelist Kola Boof

Award winning novelist Kola Boof was born Naima Bint Harith circa 1969 in Omdurman, Sudan to Arab Egyptian archeologist Harith Bin Farouk and his wife Jiddi, a charcoal black Gisi-Waaq Oromo. Kola’s birth parents were murdered in her presence in 1978 for speaking out against slavery and other atrocities by the Sudanese government. In 1979, Kola was adopted and thereafter raised in Washington, D.C. by Black Americans, Marvin and Claudine Johnson. In 1993, as an adult, Kola Boof became a citizen of the United States and has lived in the U.S. almost 30 years. *CHECK Publishers Marketplace "DEALS SECTION" for her latest Book Sales.

Kola Boof is National Chairwoman of the UNITED STATES BRANCH of
The SSPP, a peace organization based in Juba, Sudan.

http://thesspp.org

Co-members include Ambassador Dudley Thompson, Dr. Peter Adwok
Nyaba, Francis Bok, BF Bankie and Danish writer Garba Diallo.

CONTACT KOLA BOOF: kolaboof@ymail.com

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Books by Kola Boof (Published in the U.S. )
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Diary of a Lost Girl (Autobiography) 2006
Flesh and the Devil (a novel) 1995/US: 2004
Long Train to the Redeeming Sin (short stories) 1998/US: 2004
Nile River Woman (Poetry) 1997/US: 2004
Harper’s Magazine (2006)
Politically Inspired (anthology by Stephen Elliot) 2003

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Awards
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“Best Book of 2006”—“Diary of a Lost Girl: The Autobiography of Kola Boof”, chosen by PRINCETON Critic Kam Williams Year of 2006 List/United States.

SWEDEN--“2007 World Author’s Woman to Woman Pen” (Kavinna till Kavinna) for Non-fiction, awarded for Kola Boof’s essay “I Am My Own Daughter”, which appeared in the popular Swedish feminist magazine, OTTAR—Sweden.
The award is called in Swedish, "Kavinna till Kavinna".

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Miscellaneous
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In 2008, government officials in South Sudan rewarded Kola Boof for years of activism by appointing her National Chairwoman of the U.S. branch of its peace organization The SSPP.

She has been interviewed by MSNBC, FOX NEWS, CNN and featured in TV Guide, Time Magazine and the N.Y. Post and N.Y. Times.

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PRAISE FOR KOLA BOOF:
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The New York Times:
“The African Garbo…Kola Boof is earthy, angry and alluring.”

Derrick Bell:
“Kola Boof is a writer of courage, principle and loads of courageous
perseverance.”

Stephen Elliott (“Happy Baby”, “Looking Forward to It”):
“Kola Boof writes like a singer. I loved ‘Long Train to the Redeeming Sin’.”

Tiki Barber, The Today Show:
“Kola, everyone should read your autobiography…it’s wonderful.”

Kam Williams, Princeton :
“My pick for the Best Book of 2006 is ‘Diary of a Lost Girl’ by Kola Boof.”

RAWSISTAZ REVIEWS:
(on “Long Train to the Redeeming Sin”)

“Charismatic and richly layered...4 stars.”

TRACY PRICE THOMPSON:
(on “Flesh and the Devil”)

“I place Kola Boof in the company of James
Baldwin and Alice Walker...she’s one of the most
innovative and political women’s writers
we’ve seen in a long time.
‘FLESH AND THE DEVIL’ is a classic.”

--Tracy Price Thompson, “A Woman’s Worth”

“Kola’s books haunt you long after you’re done with
them.”
--Keith Boykin, (host, MY TWO CENTS, BET-J)

SOLOMON AMADOU:

“Innovative books like ‘Long Train to the Redeeming
Sin’, ‘Pure N_____r Evil’, ‘Flesh and the Devil’ and ‘Nile River Woman’ prove beyond a doubt that Boof is in a class by herself.”

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ARTISTS WHO INSPIRED KOLA BOOF
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Nawal el Sadaawi
Alice Walker
Toni Morrison
Poet Mari Evans

CHINWEIZU (in adulthood)
Gloria Naylor
Sherwood Anderson
Mark Twain
Frida Khalo
Gayl Jones
Richard Wright
Jaqueline Susann
Terry McMillan
Sylvia Plath
Lucille Clifton
Meri Nana-Ama Danquah
Octavia Butler
Lauryn Hill
Sister Souljah
Singer Madonna
Marita Golden (in adulthood)
James Baldwin
Grace Jones
Buchi Emecheta
Mariama Ba
Poet Wanda Coleman
Filmmaker Ousmane Sembene
Filmmaker Josef Von Sternburg
Filmmaker Julie Dash
Songwriters Burt Bacharach, Hal David
Burning Spear
Rock group "CHICAGO" song--"Does Anybody Really
Know What Time It Is?"
The GoGo's
Olivia Newton-John
Maxine Waters
Agnes Nixon
Harding Lemay
Pat Faulken Smith
Buffie the Body
Newswoman Deborah Roberts
Newswoman Gwen Ifill
Keith Boykin
IMAN
Naomi Campbell
Cicely Tyson (*first black actress to wear her natural
hair in American films)
Tennis legends Venus and Serena

"Virgins In the Beehive" (Atlantic Library, 2010)