A Moonless, Starless Sky. Ordinary Women And Men Fighting Extremism In Africa

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Cosair
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2017
Edition: Reprint

Description: 236 pages. Book is in Very Good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: One of Amazons "Most Buzzworthy Books of the Season"Featured as recommended reading this fall by Elle, Vogue, W, and LitHub "Absolutely essential reading, period."---Alexandra Fuller, bestselling author of Dont Lets Go to the Dogs Tonight In the tradition of Behind the Beautiful Forevers, this is a masterful, humane work of literary journalism by New Yorker staff writer Alexis Okeowo--a vivid narrative of Africans who are courageously resisting their continents wave of fundamentalism.In A Moonless, Starless Sky, Okeowo weaves together four narratives that form a powerful tapestry of modern Africa: a young couple, kidnap victims of Joseph Konys LRA; a Mauritanian waging a lonely campaign against modern-day slavery; a womens basketball team flourishing amid war-torn Somalia; and a vigilante who takes up arms against the extremist group Boko Haram. This debut book by one of Americas most acclaimed young journalists illuminates the inner lives of ordinary people doing the extraordinary--lives that are too often hidden, underreported, or ignored by the rest of the world.

ISBN: 9781472153715