A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa

by Okeowo, Alexis
5 out of 5 Customer Rating
ISBN: 9780316382922
Availability:
$7.99
Used - Trade Paperback - 9780316382922
2 Offers Available See Details

Available Offers

FreeShipping
See Details
Back to Available Offers
Offer Details
AvijitShipping
Save $0.50 off one item
See Details
Back to Available Offers
Offer Details
Save $0.50 off
Pickup at HPB West Lane Avenue Out of stock at HPB West Lane Avenue Check other stores
FREE
Ship to Me
$3.99

Overview

WINNER OF THE 2018 PEN OPEN BOOK AWARD

"A rich and urgently necessary book" (New York Times Book Review), A Moonless, Starless Sky is a masterful, humane work of journalism by Alexis Okeowo--a vivid narrative of Africans who are courageously resisting their continent's wave of fundamentalism.

In A Moonless, Starless Sky Okeowo weaves together four narratives that form 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. This debut book by one of America's most acclaimed young journalists illuminates the inner lives of ordinary people doing the extraordinary--lives that are too often hidden, underreported, or ignored by the rest of the world.

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Okeowo, Alexis
  • ISBN: 9780316382922
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 7.90 x 0.90
  • Number Of Pages: 272
  • Publication Year: 2018

Customer Reviews