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Egyptian-Sudanese American novelist Kola Boof
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Represented by legendary Film Producer/Literary Manager Ken Atchity (Noire, Angelina Jolie, Gov. Jesse Ventura, Dr. Dre), 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. Kolas birth parents were murdered in her presence in 1978 for speaking out against slavery and other atrocities by the Sudanese government, and 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 in 1994, she returned to North Africa to pursue a career in modeling and acting. Unfortunately, in 1996, she was the mistress of Osama Bin Laden, which caused a media frenzy. Although the relationship was against her will, Ms. Boof lost her writing post at NBC's "Days of Our Lives" after sponsors became nervous about the scandal. Ms. Boof currently lives in Washington D.C.
Kola Boof is National Chairwoman of the United States branch of
The SSPP, a peace organization in Juba, South Sudan.
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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
Harpers Magazine (2006)
Politically Inspired (anthology by Stephen Elliot) 2003
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Awards
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Best Book of 2006Diary of a Lost Girl: The Autobiography of Kola Boof, chosen by PRINCETON Critic Kam Williams Year of 2006 List/United States.
SWEDEN--2007 World Authors Woman to Woman Pen (Kavinna till Kavinna) for Non-fiction, awarded for Kola Boofs essay I Am My Own Daughter, which appeared in the popular Swedish feminist magazine, OTTARSweden.
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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MAJOR FRANCHISES under KEN ATCHITY
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Clients of Ken Atchity include bestsellers Steve Alten, Jamise Dames, Tracy Price Thompson, Dr. Dre, Noire and Governor Jesse Ventura.
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AEI has sold, and is producing, these major franchises:
Noire, the provocative #1 Essence Bestselling Queen of Urban Erotica, whose books include G-Spot, Candy Licker, Thug-a-Licious, Baby Brother, Thong on Fire, and Hood.
Ripley's Believe It Or Not! Jim Carrey and Gong-Li starring, Tim Burton directing; AEI producing with Richard Zanuck and Alphaville at Paramount. Script by Scott A. Alexander and Larry Karaszewski ("People vs. Larry Flynt," "Man on the Moon") and by Steve Oedekerk ("Bruce Almighty").
Royce Buckingham's Demon Keeper, Putnam's; in development with Fox 2000.
Three Men Seeking Monsters: Six Weeks in Pursuit of Werewolves, Lake Monsters, Giant Cats, Ghostly Devil Dogs, and Ape-Men by Nick Redfern, Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite) starring. AEI producing with Heder's Greasy Entertainment at Universal.
Meg, based on Steve Alten's New York Times Bestselling Novel, producing with Larry Gordon Productions ("Die Hard," "Lara Croft"), and Nick Nunziata, Jan de Bont ("Speed," "Twister") attached to direct script by Shane Salerno ("Armageddon," "Shaft").
Bestselling superstar author Tracy Price Thompson whose books include
"Gather Together In My Name", "Chocolate Sangria", "A Woman's Worth"
and the classics "Black Coffee" and "Proverbs for the People".
Southern black horror writer Tabitha Tombstone, author of the upcoming novel "The Devil Knows Your Name".
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AEI has offices in Los Angeles and New York, and Associate Managers throughout the U.S. and in eleven foreign countries.