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[[Image:Kola Boof Heathrow Airport.JPG|thumb|Kola Boof at [[Heathrow Airport]] 1998]]
'''Kola Boof''' (Born '''Naima Bint Harith''', [[March 3]], [[1972]]) is an [[American]] [[writer]], [[feminist]] and black [[activist]] best known for her [[1996]] [[sex|sexual relationship]] with [[terrorist]] [[Osama bin Laden]].

==Biography==

====Early years====

Naima Bint Harith was born in [[Omdurman]], [[Sudan]]. Her father, Harith Bin Farouk, was an [[Egypt|Egyptian]] [[archeologist]],  and her mother, Jiddi, was a Gisi-Waaq [[Oromo]]. Kola was raised as a [[muslim]]. Her birthdate is unknown, but she "believes she is a [[Pisces]]" and was possibly born in 1969. [http://kolaboof.tripod.com/remix.htm] [http://www.nathanielturner.com/whoiskolaboof.htm]  Her parents were murdered in front of her for making denouncements against Arab-Islamic practices in Sudan of oppressing and enslaving Black Sudanese. Her Arabic grandmother put her up for adoption for having "dark" skin and after a short time in [[England]], living with an Ethiopian family. In [[1980]], she was adopted by an [[African American]] couple in the [[Anacostia Park]] neighborhood of [[Washington, D.C.]] [http://www.nathanielturner.com/whoiskolaboof.htm]

====Relationship with Osama bin Laden====

In [[1996]], Boof was pursuing an acting career in  and living at the Essauira Sofitel Thalassa in [[North Africa]], when she was taken prisoner by Osama bin Laden. met [[Osama bin Laden]] at a [[restaurant]]. She was there with "some Senegalese soccer player" that she was dating at the time. According to Boof, "He ordered his men to intrude on me and my date...and to bring me to his table. I went to his table trembling...He asked me what I was eating. I said '[[lion|lion's]] meat'. He then told me that I was never again to eat 'lion's meat' or anything 'with [[claws]]' and that I was not to see any other man but him." [http://www.nathanielturner.com/whoiskolaboof.htm]⏎
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He allegedly forced her to live him at La Maison Arabe [[hotel]] in [[Marrakesh]], [[Morocco]] for foursix months, during which time they had sexual relations (by some accounts, she was [[rape|raped]] by him). Boof claims that she was sometimes made to wear a paper bag over he head during intercourse. [http://www.nathanielturner.com/whoiskolaboof.htm]⏎
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 She left Morocco for [[Spain]] in [[1998]], after bin Laden "asked me to move out so he could move another woman in." Later that year, angred over the way Islam was portrayed in a book of poetry titled ''[[Every Little Bit Hurts]]'' by Boof, bin Laden phoned the author at her home and told her that "if I had the time, I would come and slit your throat myself." [http://de.indymedia.org/2003/01/38624.shtml] Boof initially denied that she ever had any contact with bin L(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]]