Bibliograph

A moonless, starless sky, ordinary women and men fighting extremism in Africa, Alexis Okeowo

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A moonless, starless sky, ordinary women and men fighting extremism in Africa, Alexis Okeowo

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A moonless, starless sky

Oclc number

972386204

Responsibility statement

Alexis Okeowo

Sub title

ordinary women and men fighting extremism in Africa

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

Table Of 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

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