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"Sudan's most successful novelist sets the record straight with a revealing Internet video documentary"

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(PRWEB) July 1, 2005 -- Kola Boof has debuted an online guerrilla-style video documentary, "Nile River Woman," which seeks to introduce the noted African novelist-poet and Queen of Sudan's SPLA to a wider audience. The video features rare footage of Osama Bin Laden, who, in 1996, forced Boof to become his mistress for six months after raping her in Morocco.

The author of six literary novels published in eight countries, including the latest release "Flesh and the Devil"--Kola Boof warns Americans that terrorism should be taken more seriously by the U.S. Additionally, the Half-Arab author who was born Muslim, remains unapologetically critical of both the Arab world and Islam as she details the racist, colorist and sexist societies of her native countries, Sudan and Egypt.

Last month in England, new death threats were made against Kola Boof by Osama Bin Laden's close friend and defender--Sheik Omar Bakri Mohammad--and Boof addresses this in the video.

Boof's autobiography, "Diary of a Lost Girl", debuts in the United States December 2005. The author will make her first ever public appearance in New York City, reading from her novel "Flesh and the Devil" at the Afrikan Poetry Theatre on October 9th, 2005 at 6 p.m.


ABOUT THE BOOK:

Many will be spellbound by the chapters detailing her terrifying experience as Osama Bin Laden's former mistress...but the Sudanese-born novelist/poet writes even more profoundly about the hardships of being vaginally circumsized, about witnessing her birth parents killed in her presence as a small child, about slavery and Arabism in Sudan, about being adopted and raised in the U.S. by African Americans, about her quest for true love...and about her "wild" tragic sexuality.

Add to that years of psychiatric treatment, a struggle with manic anger and quite a few daring romances other than Bin Laden and you've got the perfect ingredients for a feature film.

Readers will find themselves fascinated...as young innocent Naima Bint Harith tragically becomes the vitriolic complicated temptress Kola. A doomed movie starlet, feminist activist and "kept woman"...who ultimately emerges as the loving mother, outspoken novelist/poet and professional cook that we know today as Kola Boof.

Throughout the book, Kola speaks in a voice so utterly naked, truthful and unpretentious that it's impossible not to fall in love with her.

"Diary of a Lost Girl" is a powerful autobiography that you won't soon forget.

--Kurt Rampling (editor)


Watch Video: http://doorofkush.50megs.com/about.html (WARNING: Contains Brief Nudity)

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