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

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By Alexis Okeowo ’06

Published Sept. 18, 2017

A Moonless, Starless Sky (Hachette) weaves together four stories of ordinary people doing the extraordinary: a couple who were kidnapping victims of Joseph Kony’s LRA, a Mauritanian fighting modern slavery, a women’s basketball team flourishing in Somalia, and a vigilante taking up arms against the extremist group Boko Haram.

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