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Books by Kola
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by Kola Boof translated from the Arabic by Said Musa ISBN: 0-9712019-7-8 |
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Release date: May 11th, 2004 Click
on Book Cover to Purchase! Fans of Toni Morrison's BELOVED and Edward P. Jones's THE KNOWN WORLD will get yet another take on the institution and effects of slavery...only this time from the viewpoint of one of North Africa's most sensational and charismatic new writers. The beauty of the narrative and the personal magic of Kola Boof makes this one of the most daringly controversial novels of the year. **READ A REVIEW!! |
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Feb.
10th, 2004 ISBN: 0-9712019-6-X |
For Black History month...African American publisher Cornel Chesney is releasing the anthology of poems that got Kola Boof kicked out of Morocco in 1997 and threatened with death by Osama Bin Laden in 1998.This remains one of the most powerful works of Boof's career thus far. Re-titled Nile River Woman for America...the book features 28 brand new poems (including the college radio favorite "I Love My Man")... plus 30 classic poems detailing the trials and tribulations of Black Egyptians, Sudanese and Arabs of the Nile River valley. Poems like "The Conquering Lion", which details Malcolm X's impact on Sudan (he was called Red Rooster in Sudan) and poems like "The Children With African Hair", speak quite movingly about the love that some Africans feel for Black Americans. Most notable is Boof's inclusion of Queen Nefertiti's favorite "river song" — "The Written Words of Faceless Woman" — which was originally written and sang in the 3rd century B.C. as a menstruation song. A dangerously controversial book, but also...a masterpiece. |
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*March
9th, 2004 ISBN: 0-9712019-0-0 |
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In the book of the women…they are dark and light, wide and shapely, thin as reeds…their hair eats the sun and their eyes swallow the moon…these are Black Women…the daughters of the earth's first garden. The mothers of God. These are the stories that remind us where we came from and why we came…stories that make us laugh…make us mad as hell…make us want to cry…make us want to get up and eat. These are our reflections. Our love and dreams, our sexual longing and prayers. Our goodness. Our deep eternal beauty. This is the LONG TRAIN…to the REDEEMING SIN |