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. She has also lived in 11 other countries.

From 1994 to 1999, Kola Boof (using the name Naima Kitar) was a model-actress in Tel Aviv, Israel and appeared in Arab B-film sex comedies throughout the Arabic North African world including her father's country, Egypt and Libya, Morocco.

She reportedly became the mistress of Sudan's Vice President Hasan al-Turabi in 1995 and mistress of his protege Osama Bin Laden the following year, 1996. Boof was also regularly employed as a [paid party girl] for Egypt's President Mubarak at Sharm el Sheik and for Libyan leader Moamar Khadafi at White Bride both in 1995. In an autobiography, Boof said that actresses without hair covered got more work in Arab countries by being Professional Party Hostesses at government functions. In 1997, she did spy work for South Sudan's Rebel factions, notably the SPLA, under Commanders Yaka and Athor. Boof married an electrician for the U.S. State Department Simon Palacio circa 1997 and settled down after having two sons. Following separation, media reports romantically linked Kola Boof with the President of South Africa, Jacob Zuma (a fling that caused South African press to dub her "Whore of Africa"). Boof has also been romantically linked with actors Djimon Hounsou, Gerard Butler, boxer Mike Tyson and Sudanese basketball star Luol Deng. By 2010 she was engaged to Black American legal activist Posr A Posr of Harlem. In 2006, Kola Boof was Ghost Head Writer of the daytime soap opera "Days of Our Lives" where she introduced the character E.J. Wells DiMera. In the New York Post Boof said E.J. Wells DiMera was a composite of her ex-lover Bin Laden and James Bond. She later wrote for "Young and the Restless" and "As the World Turns." In 2002, Kola Boof's allegiance to Israel caused her to be labeled a traitor by Arab Muslims and Black American activists branded her a "Jew lover." Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu featured Boof on his website and called her: "One of the ten women in the world I most admire." Under U.S. Federal Protection due to death threats from Arab Muslim extremists in her native Sudan, Kola Boof lived under various fake identities (including dead people) provided by Witness Protection but refused to give up her public career as a novelist causing Federal protection to end. Boof's autobiography, "Diary of a Lost Girl" became a controversial bestseller in 2006.

Boof is a professional cook and has become famous for various recipes posted on the internet. *CHECK Publishers Marketplace "DEALS SECTION" for her latest Book Sales.

Kola Boof's latest novel is "THE SEXY PART OF THE BIBLE" a daringly
sensuous and dramatic look at the exploits of scientists in Western Africa. The book is published by Akashic Books in July 2011.

CONTACT KOLA BOOF: kolaboof@ymail.com

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Books by Kola Boof (Published in the U.S. )
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The Sexy Part of the Bible (Akashic) 2011
Virgins In the Beehive (e-book only//Atlantic Library) 2010
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.”

The Boston Globe:
"The most jubilant celebration of black African beauty so far seen in the English language."
--Madison Smartt Bell on "The Sexy Part of the Bible" (2011)

BOOKLIST:
(On Boof's novel "The Sexy Part of the Bible")
"From the malignant forces of racism and sexism to corruption and cloning, Boof catwalks her way through a shrewdly satirical, erotic, and suspenseful novel of defiance."

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

TIME OUT CHICAGO:

"Boof has written a novel with the histrionics of daytime drama, boldly sensuous and savvy about the dangers of post-colonial politics." (*On
Boof's novel "The Sexy Part of the Bible", 2011)

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

San Francisco Weekly:
"Boof's sociopolitical analysis is sharp, and combined with her unflinchingly observant and richly rendered prose, it's keeping us enthralled." (*The Sexy Part of the Bible)

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.”

Mark Kurlansky, best-selling author of Salt: A World History:
"Kola Boof is a natural storyteller who turns cliches on their
heads...a writer with important things to say."

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

"The Sexy Part of the Bible" (Akashic Books 2011)
"Virgins In the Beehive" (E-book Only//Atlantic Library, 2010)