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| name = Kola Boof | | name = Kola Boof | ||
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| birth_date = | | birth_date = 1969 <!-- {{Birth year and age|YYYY}} --><ref name=PubMarketplace/> | ||
| birth_place = Sudan | | birth_place = Omdurman, Sudan<ref name=PubMarketplace/> | ||
| death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date then birth date) --> | | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date then birth date) --> | ||
| death_place = | | death_place = | ||
| nationality = | | nationality = American<ref name=PubMarketplace/> | ||
| other_names = | | other_names = Naima Bint Harith (birth name)<ref name=PubMarketplace/> | ||
| known_for = described being kidnapped by Osama bin Laden, and forced | | known_for = described being kidnapped by Osama bin Laden, and forced into a sexual relationship | ||
| occupation = writer, poet | | occupation = writer, poet | ||
}} | }} | ||
'''Kola Boof''' (b. 1968) is an author and former model, who was born in wartime | '''Kola Boof''' (b. 1968) is an author and former model, who was born in wartime Sudan, orphaned, | ||
and adopted by an American family.<ref name=Seattlest/><ref name=atlantapost2011-04-28/> | and adopted by an American family.<ref name=Seattlest/><ref name=atlantapost2011-04-28/> | ||
In 2002, Boof initially denied reports by '' | In 2002, Boof initially denied reports by ''The Guardian'' that she was a former lover of | ||
Osama bin Laden, but later offered her own account of living as an involuntary concubine to bin Laden, | |||
for six months, in 1996, in | for six months, in 1996, in Marrakesh, Morocco.<ref name=Seattlest/> | ||
==Early life== | ==Early life== | ||
Boof's father was an | Boof's father was an Egyptian Arab, her mother a Somalia girl, however, since she was born in | ||
the Sudan she considers herself Sudanese.<ref name=Seattlest/> | the Sudan she considers herself Sudanese.<ref name=Seattlest/> | ||
Her father was politically active, and was disowned by his Egyptian family, hence his move to Sudan. | Her father was politically active, and was disowned by his Egyptian family, hence his move to Sudan. | ||
She was six years old when she was orphaned.<ref name=nytimes2002-12-02/> | She was six years old when she was orphaned.<ref name=nytimes2002-12-02/> | ||
She describes the family that adopted her and eight other children raising her in poverty, in | She describes the family that adopted her and eight other children raising her in poverty, in | ||
Washington D.C.. As a teenager she competed in a beauty pageant and describes becoming the | |||
mistress of one of the pageant's judges. | mistress of one of the pageant's judges. | ||
Boof became a model. | Boof became a model. | ||
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According to Boof she had a creepy feeling about Osama bin Laden, when she first met him, and | According to Boof she had a creepy feeling about Osama bin Laden, when she first met him, and | ||
congratulated herself that none of his bodyguards had followed her home, only to find that she had been followed, and that bin Laden had chosen her as a concubine.<ref name=Seattlest/> | congratulated herself that none of his bodyguards had followed her home, only to find that she had been followed, and that bin Laden had chosen her as a concubine.<ref name=Seattlest/><ref name=harpers2006-09/><ref name=theatlantic2011-05-25/> | ||
She describes their first sexual encounter as a | She describes their first sexual encounter as a rape. But, citing the example of Patty Hearst | ||
she objects to being described as a " | she objects to being described as a "sex slave". She points out that Patty Hearst was | ||
raped, and held captive, but she is never described as a "sex slave". | raped, and held captive, but she is never described as a "sex slave". | ||
According to Boof, Osama bin Laden was obsessed with American singer | According to Boof, Osama bin Laden was obsessed with American singer Whitney Houston.<ref name=Seattlest/><ref name=nationalpost2012-02-12/> | ||
According to Boof, Osama bin Laden routinely smoked | According to Boof, Osama bin Laden routinely smoked cannabis. | ||
According to Boof, even though conservative muslims frown on pornography, Osama bin Laden | According to Boof, even though conservative muslims frown on pornography, Osama bin Laden | ||
carried around | carried around Playboy magazines. | ||
Boof says bin Laden wanted her to wear her hair like Whitney Houston's; said that Houston | Boof says bin Laden wanted her to wear her hair like Whitney Houston's; said that Houston | ||
looked inherently Islamic, and had been brainwashed by American culture, and by her husband | looked inherently Islamic, and had been brainwashed by American culture, and by her husband | ||
Bobby Brown; that Houston was the only black woman he had considered marrying; that he | |||
had considered having Bobby Brown assassinated. | had considered having Bobby Brown assassinated. | ||
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with substantial gifts.<ref name=Seattlest/> | with substantial gifts.<ref name=Seattlest/> | ||
She claims her account of the involuntary nature of her time with | She claims her account of the involuntary nature of her time with | ||
Bin Laden had been confirmed by | Bin Laden had been confirmed by Fabrizzio Ruspoli, the owner of the bed & breakfast where bin Laden held her.<ref name=atlantapost2011-04-28/> | ||
==Books== | ==Books== | ||
In addition to her 2006 memoirs, ''"Diary of a lost girl"'' Boof has written several novels.<ref name=PubMarketplace | In addition to her 2006 memoirs, ''"Diary of a lost girl"'' Boof has written several novels.<ref name=PubMarketplace/> | ||
Boof also wrote for several American soap operas. | Boof also wrote for several American soap operas. | ||
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! year || title || publisher | ! year || title || publisher | ||
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| 2011 || ''The Sexy Part of the Bible'' || | | 2011 || ''The Sexy Part of the Bible'' || Akashic | ||
|- | |- | ||
| 2010 || ''Virgins In the Beehive'' || | | 2010 || ''Virgins In the Beehive'' || Atlantic Library | ||
|- | |- | ||
| 2006 || ''Diary of a Lost Girl'' | | 2006 || ''Diary of a Lost Girl'' | ||
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==Dispute with Peter Bergen== | |||
Journalist Peter Bergen, famous for interviewing Osama bin Laden, and publishing a biography on him, called Boof's book ''"the worst book of the year"''.<ref name=peterbergen2006-07-05/> According to Bergen she described a sexual encounter between Osama bin Laden, Ayman al Zawahiri, Abdullah Azzam, and Sayyid Qutb. However, Bergen asserted, Qutb and Azzam were dead, in 1996, and al Zawahiri was in prison. | |||
==Views on the black identity== | |||
Boof's views on media portrayals of the black identity have generated controversy.<ref name=theatlantic2011-05-25/><ref name=womenandhollywood2014-06-14/> In 2011 several music industry publications reported her criticisms of a rap video entitled "Pretty girls" by an American rapper names Wale, whose parents were from Nigeria.<ref name=XxlWaleBoof/> She criticized him for not including an African women in his video. In 2014 she critized casting Zendaya Coleman as the lead in a biopic of Aaliyah, because she thought Zendaya didn't have sufficiently African appearance. She had previously criticized casting Zoe Saldana in a biopic of Nina Simone, in which filmmakers darkened Saldana's skin color, and had her wear facial prosthetics. | |||
<ref name=sheknowsKolaBoof/> | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
{{Reflist|refs= | {{Reflist|refs= | ||
<ref name=nationalpost2012-02-12> | |||
{{cite news | |||
| url = https://nationalpost.com/news/whitney-houston-1963-2012 | |||
| title = Whitney Houston: 1963-2012 | |||
| work = National Post | |||
| date = 2012-02-12 | |||
| archiveurl = | |||
| archivedate = | |||
| accessdate = 2021-07-17 | |||
| url-status = live | |||
| quote = <!-- A Sudanese writer claiming to have been Osama bin Laden’s sex slave in the ’90s releases a book in which she says bin Laden was obsessed with Ms. Houston, in between planning terrorist bombings. --> The al-Qaeda leader mused about making her one of his wives and said he would like to have Mr. Brown killed, according the author, Kola Boof. | |||
}} | |||
</ref> | |||
<ref name=peterbergen2006-07-05> | |||
{{cite news | {{cite news | ||
| url = | | url = https://peterbergen.com/the-worst-book-of-the-year/ | ||
| title = | | title = The worst book of the year | ||
| work = | | work = Peter Bergen's website | ||
| author = Peter Bergen | |||
| date = 2006-07-05 | |||
| archiveurl = | |||
| archivedate = | |||
| accessdate = 2021-07-17 | |||
| url-status = live | |||
| quote = Boof says this happened in Morocco in 1996. However, in 1996 bin Laden was living in Sudan, Ayman al Zawahiri was imprisoned in Dagestan, Azzam had been assassinated in Pakistan thirteen years earlier, and Qutb had been lying in his grave for three decades. Boof should stick to poetry. | |||
}} | |||
</ref> | |||
<ref name=XxlWaleBoof> | |||
{{cite news | |||
| url = https://www.xxlmag.com/osama-bin-ladens-alleged-mistress-calls-wale-a-racist/ | |||
| title = Osama Bin Laden’s Alleged Mistress Calls Wale a Racist | |||
| work = XXL | |||
| author = | | author = | ||
| date = | | date = | ||
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| accessdate = 2021-07-17 | | accessdate = 2021-07-17 | ||
| url-status = live | | url-status = live | ||
| quote = “I don't like @wale because he's another Colorstruck Black Man who's videos are pretty much White Supremacist images," she wrote on the social media site. "The fact that @wale is Nigerian makes it all the worse, because he's setting the wrong example globally for our race. <!-- A loser. There wasn't a single Black woman in 'Pretty Girls'...so what in the f-ck was he saying about African women?? His own race? @wale and all the rest of these Self-hating Niggerstock Bastards don't celebrate Black Beauty bec. they can't C it” --> | |||
}} | |||
</ref> | |||
<ref name=womenandhollywood2014-06-14> | |||
{{cite news | |||
| url = https://womenandhollywood.com/do-colorism-issues-threaten-to-stain-the-aaliyah-biopic-c5c986e94114/ | |||
| title = Do Colorism Issues Threaten to Stain the Aaliyah Biopic | |||
| work = Women and Hollywood | |||
| date = 2014-06-14 | |||
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| location = | |||
| isbn = | |||
| language = | |||
| trans-title = | |||
| archiveurl = | |||
| archivedate = | |||
| accessdate = 2021-07-17 | |||
| url-status = live | |||
| quote = And Boof is right that blackface is offensive — always (Lifetime, please don’t do it!). | |||
}} | |||
</ref> | |||
<ref name=harpers2006-09> | |||
{{cite news | |||
| url = https://harpers.org/archive/2006/09/0081180 | |||
| title = His prerogative | |||
| work = Harper's magazine | |||
| author = Kola Boof | |||
| date = September 2006 | |||
| page = | |||
| location = | |||
| isbn = | |||
| language = | |||
| trans-title = | |||
| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070529071047/https://harpers.org/archive/2006/09/0081180 | |||
| archivedate = 2007-05-29 | |||
| accessdate = 2021-07-17 | |||
| url-status = dead | |||
| quote = | | quote = | ||
}} | }} | ||
</ref> | </ref> | ||
<ref name=sheknowsKolaBoof> | |||
{{cite news | {{cite news | ||
| url = | | url = https://soaps.sheknows.com/days-of-our-lives/news/16805/former-days-of-our-lives-writer-kola-boof-publishes/ | ||
| title = | | title = Former Days of our Lives Writer Kola Boof Publishes The Sexy Part Of The Bible | ||
| work = | | work = Soaps she knows | ||
| author = | | author = | ||
| date = | | date = | ||
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| url = https://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/11/books/fatwa-victim-or-a-fraud-mystery-enshrouds-kola-boof-writer-and-internet-persona.html | | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/11/books/fatwa-victim-or-a-fraud-mystery-enshrouds-kola-boof-writer-and-internet-persona.html | ||
| title = Fatwa Victim or a Fraud?; Mystery Enshrouds Kola Boof, Writer and Internet Persona | | title = Fatwa Victim or a Fraud?; Mystery Enshrouds Kola Boof, Writer and Internet Persona | ||
| work = | | work = The New York Times | ||
| author = Julie Salamon | | author = Julie Salamon | ||
| date = 2002-12-02 | | date = 2002-12-02 | ||
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| url = https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2011/05/osama-bin-ladens-ex-mistress-feuds-dc-rapper/351084/ | | url = https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2011/05/osama-bin-ladens-ex-mistress-feuds-dc-rapper/351084/ | ||
| title = Twitter's Odd Pairings: Bin Laden's Reputed Ex-Lover Feuds with a Rapper | | title = Twitter's Odd Pairings: Bin Laden's Reputed Ex-Lover Feuds with a Rapper | ||
| work = | | work = Atlantic magazine | ||
| author = John Hudson | | author = John Hudson | ||
| date = 2011-05-25 | | date = 2011-05-25 | ||
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| url = http://atlantapost.com/2011/04/28/being-hitler%E2%80%99s-girlfriend-bin-laden%E2%80%99s-mistress-sets-the-record-straight/ | | url = http://atlantapost.com/2011/04/28/being-hitler%E2%80%99s-girlfriend-bin-laden%E2%80%99s-mistress-sets-the-record-straight/ | ||
| title = Being Hitler’s Girlfriend: Bin Laden’s Mistress Sets The Record Straight | | title = Being Hitler’s Girlfriend: Bin Laden’s Mistress Sets The Record Straight | ||
| publisher = | | publisher = Atlanta Post | ||
| author = Kola Boof | | author = Kola Boof | ||
| date = 2011-04-28 | | date = 2011-04-28 | ||
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| url-status = dead | | url-status = dead | ||
| quote = Luckily, I had very good witnesses to my experience with Bin Laden. The Italian born Prince Fabrizzio Ruspoli (owner of La Maison Arabe, at that time a bed and breakfast in Morocco’s Medina where Osama kept me) and Ruspoli’s lover Phillipe were the ones who saved me and my children from being deported by telling the U.S. State Department the truth—that I had appeared to be unhappy living with Bin Laden and that I clearly wasn’t free to leave the estate without Somi’s guards. | | quote = Luckily, I had very good witnesses to my experience with Bin Laden. The Italian born Prince Fabrizzio Ruspoli (owner of La Maison Arabe, at that time a bed and breakfast in Morocco’s Medina where Osama kept me) and Ruspoli’s lover Phillipe were the ones who saved me and my children from being deported by telling the U.S. State Department the truth—that I had appeared to be unhappy living with Bin Laden and that I clearly wasn’t free to leave the estate without Somi’s guards. | ||
}} | |||
</ref> | |||
<ref name=PubMarketplace> | |||
{{cite news | |||
| url = http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/LuvAmerica/ | |||
| title = Writer: Kola BOof | |||
| publisher = Publishers Marketplace | |||
| accessdate = 2011-08-22 | |||
| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20110427192743/http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/LuvAmerica/ | |||
| archivedate = 2011-04-27 | |||
| accessdate = 2021-07-17 | |||
| url-status = live | |||
| quote = Award winning novelist Kola Boof was born Naima Bint Harith circa 1969 in Omdurman, Sudan to Arab Egyptian archeologist Harith Bin Farouk and his wife Jiddi, a charcoal black Gisi-Waaq Oromo. Kola’s birth parents were murdered in her presence in 1978 for speaking out against slavery and other atrocities by the Sudanese government. <!-- In 1979, Kola was adopted and thereafter raised in Washington, D.C. by Black Americans, Marvin and Claudine Johnson. In 1993, as an adult, Kola Boof became a citizen of the United States and has lived in the U.S. almost 30 years. --> | |||
}} | }} | ||
</ref> | </ref> | ||
}} | }} |
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Kola Boof (b. 1968) is an author and former model, who was born in wartime Sudan, orphaned, and adopted by an American family.[2][3] In 2002, Boof initially denied reports by The Guardian that she was a former lover of Osama bin Laden, but later offered her own account of living as an involuntary concubine to bin Laden, for six months, in 1996, in Marrakesh, Morocco.[2] Early lifeBoof's father was an Egyptian Arab, her mother a Somalia girl, however, since she was born in the Sudan she considers herself Sudanese.[2] Her father was politically active, and was disowned by his Egyptian family, hence his move to Sudan. She was six years old when she was orphaned.[4] She describes the family that adopted her and eight other children raising her in poverty, in Washington D.C.. As a teenager she competed in a beauty pageant and describes becoming the mistress of one of the pageant's judges. Boof became a model. Boof's account of her relationship with Osama bin LadenAccording to Boof she had a creepy feeling about Osama bin Laden, when she first met him, and congratulated herself that none of his bodyguards had followed her home, only to find that she had been followed, and that bin Laden had chosen her as a concubine.[2][5][6] She describes their first sexual encounter as a rape. But, citing the example of Patty Hearst she objects to being described as a "sex slave". She points out that Patty Hearst was raped, and held captive, but she is never described as a "sex slave". According to Boof, Osama bin Laden was obsessed with American singer Whitney Houston.[2][7] According to Boof, Osama bin Laden routinely smoked cannabis. According to Boof, even though conservative muslims frown on pornography, Osama bin Laden carried around Playboy magazines. Boof says bin Laden wanted her to wear her hair like Whitney Houston's; said that Houston looked inherently Islamic, and had been brainwashed by American culture, and by her husband Bobby Brown; that Houston was the only black woman he had considered marrying; that he had considered having Bobby Brown assassinated. She describes being allowed to go free when bin Laden tired of her, and that they parted with substantial gifts.[2] She claims her account of the involuntary nature of her time with Bin Laden had been confirmed by Fabrizzio Ruspoli, the owner of the bed & breakfast where bin Laden held her.[3] BooksIn addition to her 2006 memoirs, "Diary of a lost girl" Boof has written several novels.[1] Boof also wrote for several American soap operas.
Dispute with Peter BergenJournalist Peter Bergen, famous for interviewing Osama bin Laden, and publishing a biography on him, called Boof's book "the worst book of the year".[8] According to Bergen she described a sexual encounter between Osama bin Laden, Ayman al Zawahiri, Abdullah Azzam, and Sayyid Qutb. However, Bergen asserted, Qutb and Azzam were dead, in 1996, and al Zawahiri was in prison. Views on the black identityBoof's views on media portrayals of the black identity have generated controversy.[6][9] In 2011 several music industry publications reported her criticisms of a rap video entitled "Pretty girls" by an American rapper names Wale, whose parents were from Nigeria.[10] She criticized him for not including an African women in his video. In 2014 she critized casting Zendaya Coleman as the lead in a biopic of Aaliyah, because she thought Zendaya didn't have sufficiently African appearance. She had previously criticized casting Zoe Saldana in a biopic of Nina Simone, in which filmmakers darkened Saldana's skin color, and had her wear facial prosthetics. References
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