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I was born Sunni Muslim in Omdurman, Sudan, I am vaginally infibulated, I was adopted and raised by Black Americans.!
Kola Boof
American novelist
Kola Boof | |
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Native name | نعيمة بنت الحارث |
Born | Naima Bint Harith Sudan |
Occupation | Novelist |
Citizenship | American |
Notable works | Diary of a Lost Girl |
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Kola Boof is a Sudanese-American novelist.
She was born a Sunni Muslim in Omdurman, Sudan.
Award winning Egyptian-Sudanese novelist (Sweden's Kavinna Prize ).
As a child, she witnessed her parents' murder.[1][page needed] She was adopted by African-Americans in Washington D.C. in 1979 and became an American citizen in 1993. She is the author of seven books, published in eight countries.[2]
Her birth name was Naima Bint Harith.
She wrote "Kola Boof" first as a "two-word poem," but liked it so much that she adopted it as her penname for her literary career. The "Kola" part refers to the kola nut.[1][page needed]
She has alleged that she was forced in 1996 in Morocco by Osama bin Laden to be his mistress, and that bin Laden raped her and controlled her, no