TY  - BOOK
AU  - Okeowo,Alexis
TI  - A moonless, starless sky: ordinary women and men fighting extremism in Africa 
SN  - 9781472153715
AV  - HV6433.A35 Ok2
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Hachette Books
KW  - Extremists
KW  - Africa
KW  - Abduction
KW  - Uganda
KW  - Forced marriage
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Mauritania
KW  - Nigeria
KW  - Islamic fundamentalism
KW  - Somalia
KW  - Human rights workers
KW  - Political activists
KW  - Extr�emistes
KW  - Afrique
KW  - Enl�evement de femmes
KW  - Ouganda
KW  - Mariage forc�e
KW  - Int�egrisme islamique
KW  - Somalie
KW  - D�efenseurs des droits de l'homme
KW  - Activistes
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Genocide & War Crimes
KW  - Human Rights
KW  - World
KW  - African
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Women's Studies
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - fast
KW  - Zivilgesellschaft
KW  - gnd
KW  - Radikalismus
KW  - Fundamentalismus
KW  - Menschenrechtsverletzung
KW  - Bek�ampfung
KW  - Aktivismus
KW  - 1960-
KW  - Conditions sociales
KW  - Sub-Saharan Africa
KW  - Subsaharisches Afrika
N1  - "October 2017"--Title page verso; Uganda : an LRA love story -- Mauritania : not restrained by chains -- Nigeria : no regrets -- Somalia : war and basketball -- Uganda : in a perfect life -- Mauritania : caravan of freedom -- Nigeria : nobody rescued them -- Somalia : the last two stadiums in Mogadishu
N2  - New Yorker staff writer Alexis Okeowo weaves together four narratives of ordinary people doing the extraordinary, forming 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; "A masterful, humane work of nonfiction by New Yorker staff writer Alexis Okeowo. Casting aside stereotypes and superficial headlines, Okeowo reveals a rich, vivid account of everyday people swept up in the war and extremism -- and how they fight back. Based on the six years she spent living and reporting from across the continent, Okeowo weaves together four narratives that form a powerful tapestry of Africa today: a young Ugandan couple, kidnapping victims of Joseph Kony's LRA; a Mauritanian waging a lonely campaign against modern slavery; a teenage basketball player flourishing in war-torn Somalia, despite threats against her life; and a dual portrait of a Nigerian girl who escapes the clutches of Boko Haram and a government bureaucrat who decides to take up arms. The first book from one of America's most acclaimed young journalists, A Moonless, Starless Sky 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"--
ER  -