Sudanese writer, Kola Boof, headlines at NYC Schomburg Center

[Kala]

WRITER KOLA BOOF TO HEADLINE AT
NEW YORK'S SCHOMBURG CENTER
--Sunday, Sept. 16th

New York University professor Derrick Bell has called
her "a brilliantly gifted writer." Princeton critic
Kam Williams has rated her autobiography "Diary of a
Lost Girl" The Best Book of 2006. Now, New York City
will get a rare chance to see one of America's most
important new literary authors at a book reading at
the prestigious Schomburg Center in Harlem on Sunday,
September 16 at 4 pm. In the Schomburg's Langston
Hughes Auditorium.

Born Naima Bint Harith, Kola Boof was one of the first
writers to alert America about the catastrophe that
continues to unwind in her homeland of Sudan. The
highest ranking woman in the SPLA, Boof was an early
advocate against the Biblically-proporti oned plagues
afflicting that once-beautiful country: genocide,
starvation, rampant rape, and predation by modern-day
slavers.

Kola Boof's presentation will encompass entertainment
and cover material from the four books of hers
available in America presently. Her autobiography,
controversial for her account of an affair with a
pre-9/11 Osama bin Laden and her views on race, also
contains beautifully evoked chapters on her childhood
in Sudan, before she was ripped away from her homeland
as a young girl after the murder of her parents, who
opposed the beginning rumblings of slavery and
genocide in Khartoum.

Boof, who describes herself as a womanist writer in
the tradition of Alice Walker, Toni Morrison and Maya
Angelou, has also been dubbed "the African Garbo" by
the New York Times and is considered very
controversial for her use of nudity and her war on
"colorism" in the black community. Boof will also
read from her shocking and gripping collection of
short fiction, Long Train to the Redeeming Sin:
Stories of African Women, her beautiful and angry
landmark book of poetry, Nile River Woman, and her
epic novel Flesh and the Devil, all published by Door
of Kush Press.

Miss Boof will take questions from the audience and
sign books and take photos with fans. The program
starts at 4 p.m.