Egyptian-Sudanese American novelist Kola Boof

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. Kola’s 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
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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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.

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 Damquah
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" (a novel)
"Egyptian Sudanese American: New World Poems" (Poetry)
"The Sexy Part of the Bible" (a novel)
"The Freaks Come Out At Night" (a novel/currently writing)