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[[Image:Kola Boof Heathrow Airport.JPG|thumb|Kola Boof at [[Heathrow Airport]] 1998]]
'''Kola Boof''' ([[March 3]], [[1972]]) is an Egyptian-[[Sudan]]ese-American writer, feminist, black activist and outspoken advocate of freedom from slavery. She is the author of a collection of poetry, two collections of short stories, six literary novels, and her soon to be released personal memoir ''Diary of a Lost Girl'', which she describes as her "soul book"(contracted; show full);', published in Arabic in [[1995]], followed by ''[[Every Little Bit Hurts]]'', a [[1997]] collection of her poetry which gained popularity among [[feminists]] in Morocco and southern Europe. In [[1998]], reports of the book's anti-Islamic language reached bin Laden and he threatened to kill her.  Since then she has received more death threats from other Islamists, including Sheik [[Omar Bakri Mohammad]] and a [[fatwa]] death sentence by a sharia court in [[Khartoum]], Sudan.
  In 2002, newspapers around the world, including the ''New York Post'', ''Village Voice'' and ''Washington Times'' reported the firebombing of Boof's Ethiopian publisher, Russom Damba. {{fact}}⏎
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After several threats, on [[December 31]], [[2002]], Boof's publisher Russom Damba's printing press was firebombed. He subsequently dropped the Kola Boof from his publishing company. [http://www.rootzreggae.com/Rootz-view/KolaBoof.htm]

Kola Boof is married and lives with her husband and two sons in [[California]].  Ms. Boof has been defended publicly by her close friends, former head of the [[NAACP]] [[Joe Madison]], author [[Derrick Bell]], and Nigerian scholar [[Chinweizu]]. {{fact}}  She lived under government protection from 2002 to January 2005. <!--(*see sources for details) it said, but *which* sources?-->{{fact}}  As of 2006, Kola Boof was the highest ranking woman in the [[Sudanese People's Liberation Army]] (SPLA) and her poem "Chol Apieth" was used to memorialize SPLA founder/leader [[John Garang]] at his state funeral in 2005. 

Kola Boof has received praise and publicity from the African-American Literary Book Club, journalists [[Bruce Dunne]], [[Mark Fogarty]], [[Simon Jenkins]], the website Africana.com, ''[[The New York Times]]'', ''[[The New York Observer]]'', ''[[The New York Post]]'', ''[[Japanese Playboy]]'' magazine, the television shows [[Fox News]]' [[Fox Report]] and [[BNN]] in [[the Netherlands]]' "The Search For Bin Laden". {{fact}} She has appeareed or contributed to radio programs in Washington, D.C., [[Los Angeles]], CA, [[San Francisco]], CA, and [[Ireland]]. {{fact}}

Boof often and freely appears topless at performances and in photographs. Insisting that [[vanity]] and [[publicity]] have nothing to do with it, she has said that she is "topless to honor my mothers and grandmothers, my own African womenfolk who were always bare breasted in the sun and who gave birth to this whole world... They were not dirty and soiled by man's greed and violence. They were naked because it pleases God...and I do believe that it's an abomination against God for any woman's breasts to be covered." [[http://www.kolaboof.com/feast.htm]] In other instances, she has been less spiritual about the subject: "I have no concern...whatsoever...with what White Caucasoids think about my all-natural, God-given bare black titties." [http://www.rootzreggae.com/Rootz-view/KolaBoof.htm] She also has stated that part of her book contract was that each publication would feature a topless picture of her on the back cover. [http://www.kolaboof.com/feast.htm]

==Personal Quote==

(contracted; show full)==External links==
*[http://www.kolaboof.com/ Kola Boof's official website]

[[Category:1972 births|Boof, Kola]]
[[Category:Former Muslims|Boof, Kola]]
[[Category:Living people|Boof, Kola]]
[[Category:Sudanese poets|Boof, Kola]]
[[Category:Sudanese novelists|Boof, Kola]]