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Author Okeowo, Alexis, author.

Title A moonless, starless sky : ordinary women and men fighting extremism in Africa / Alexis Okeowo.

Publication Info. New York : Hachette Books, 2017.
©2017

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  363.32 OKEOWO    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  363.32 OKE    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  363.32 OKEOWO    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  363.3215 OKEOWO    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  363.325 OKEOWO    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  363.3215 OKE    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  363.3215 OKE    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  363.325 OKEOWO    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  363.32 OKE    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  363.3215 OKEOWO    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description xv, 240 pages ; 21 cm
Contents 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.
Summary New Yorker staff writer Alexis 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.
Subject Extremists -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Abduction -- Uganda.
Forced marriage -- Uganda.
Slavery -- Mauritania.
Abduction -- Nigeria.
Islamic fundamentalism -- Nigeria.
Islamic fundamentalism -- Somalia.
Human rights workers -- Africa.
Political activists -- Africa.
Abduction. (OCoLC)fst00794321
Extremists. (OCoLC)fst01740595
Forced marriage. (OCoLC)fst01202576
Human rights workers. (OCoLC)fst00963353
Islamic fundamentalism. (OCoLC)fst00979941
Political activists. (OCoLC)fst01069192
Slavery. (OCoLC)fst01120426
Africa. (OCoLC)fst01239509
Africa, Sub-Saharan. (OCoLC)fst01239520
Mauritania. (OCoLC)fst01205364
Nigeria. (OCoLC)fst01205229
Somalia. (OCoLC)fst01205351
Uganda. (OCoLC)fst01210282
Human rights workers -- Africa.
Political activists -- Africa.
Abduction -- Uganda.
Abduction -- Nigeria.
Islamic fundamentalism -- Nigeria.
Islamic fundamentalism -- Somalia.
Slavery -- Mauritania.
ISBN 9780316382939 (hardcover)
0316382930 (hardcover)
9781478941200 (audio download)
1478941200 (audio download)
9780316382915 (ebook)
0316382914 (ebook)
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