Title:
A moonless, starless sky : ordinary women and men fighting extremism in Africa / Alexis Okeowo.
ISBN:
9780316382939
9781472153715
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Hachette Books, [2017]
©2017
Physical Description:
xv, 240 pages ; 21 cm
General Note:
"October 2017"--Title page verso.
Contents:
Uganda : an LRA love story -- Mauritania : not restrained by chains -- Nigeria : no regrets -- Somalia : war and basketball -- Uganda : in a perfect life -- Mauritania : caravan of freedom -- Nigeria : nobody rescued them -- Somalia : the last two stadiums in Mogadishu.
Summary:
New Yorker staff writer Alexis Okeowo weaves together four narratives of ordinary people doing the extraordinary, forming 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.
OCLC Number:
ocn972386204
Availability:
Eagan - Wescott~1
