
A Moonless, Starless Sky
Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa
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Kamali Minter
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Alexis Okeowo
Winner of the 2018 Pen Open Book Award
"A rich and urgently necessary book" (New York Times Book Review), A Moonless, Starless Sky is a masterful, humane work of journalism by Alexis Okeowo - a vivid narrative of Africans who are courageously resisting their continent's 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 Kony's LRA; a Mauritanian waging a lonely campaign against modern-day slavery; a women's 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 America's 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.
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"From an abolitionist who once owned a slave to women basketball players in a war zone, Alexis Okeowo has an alert and thoughtful eye for the unexpected. The portraits and voices she brings us from Africa are so vivid that the reader can easily forget the determination and bravery it must have taken to gather them in these unhappy corners of the continent." (Adam Hochschild, New York Times best-selling author of King Leopold's Ghost and Spain in Our Hearts)
"Alexis Okeowo has gone to the hardest continent and come away with a series of tales about the fight against fanaticism and despair. The result is a deeply sensitive portrait of modern Africa and a microscope on the human condition in the most difficult circumstances." (Dexter Filkins, Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Forever War)
"Alexis Okeowo's startling and brilliant account of fierce horrors and tender hopes is one of the best records I have ever read of a world that has been made and remade time and again out of struggle and faith. Okeowo is just the kind of reporter we need to hear from when it comes to Africa, the 'new' old world: truthful, accurate, deep." (Hilton Als, Pulitzer-Prize winning author of White Girls)
Heart wrenching and inspiring
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I recommend this book to all who seek to understand how as humans we are caught in the tangled webs we weave. We must stay awake and continue to advocate for justice, equity, and kindness wherever and when ever we see it threatened. I will forever be changed by this book, as will my teaching practice in the future. Everyone who seeks first to understand man’s inhumanity and how easily life can radically change should read A Moonless, Starless Sky, part memoir, novel, documentary and love letter to humanity.
Empathy inspired for all perspectives of a complex narrative.
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This book is really interesting
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Amazing and Inspirational Stories
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