Books by Kola Boof
Nile
River Woman (Poems, Feb. 10, 2004) /
Long Train to the Redeeming
Sin-Stories About African Women
(April 6, 2004)
Flesh and the Devil: A Novel
(May 11, 2004) /
Diary of a Lost Girl
(2007)
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Boof
Speaks on Israeli Radio
An
Untoned-Down Commentary on Sudan
By Kola Boof
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Background:
For many, many years, the radical Islamic government of
Sudan has waged, what President George Bush called,
"a brutal and shameful" war against its
Christian and animist citizens in southern Sudan to
force them to convert to Islam. Negotiations in 2002 in Machakos, Kenya, produced an agreement between the
government and the South's Sudan People's Liberation
Army (SPLA), but the war continues. Meantimes, over two
million people have died, and another four million have
been displaced. --Nafisa
Goma |
My
dearest ones in Israel, the devil has been very busy. For no
matter who risks life and limb to tell the truth about the evil
injustices carried out by the Arab Muslim governments of North
Africa and by the mullahs that advise these governments, the
media in America has responded with a hideous prejudice against
Jews, against black African Sudanese, and against any
fair-thinking person who dares despise the Arab imperialism that
is not only destroying the Middle East, but now threatens to
destroy authentic African culture of the Nile River more than it
already has.
It
does not matter
that
I speak as the daughter of an Arab Egyptian father, a woman born
Islamic in Omdurman, Sudan, or that I am an accomplished African
woman writer, obviously of some intelligence.
It
does not matter
that
my parents were murdered in my presence, because my Arab Muslim
father spoke out against the building of Lake Nuba and the
enslavement of Dinka children by Arab Northerners in Sudan.
It
does not matter
that
I have witnessed Muslim women rolled up in carpets and set on
fire, because they failed to produce male children.
It
does not matter
that
I speak, most regrettably, as the former mistress of two of the
Arab world's most powerful men, Hasan al Turabi and Osama Bin
Laden, or that I have been a paid hostess at the parties of
President Hosni Mubarak and Moamar Khadafi, or that I provided
proof of this before I was profiled by Fox News, and therefore,
have knowledge of their true faces.
Anyone
who speaks the truth in America about the evils of the Arab
world is ignored, shunned and accused of supporting the
so-called Jewish desecration of the Arab birthright.
Of
course, we all remember that the Black Plague was blamed on
Jewish people, even in nations where there were no Jews living,
and this today, is the similar anti-semitic blame game, but for
being a black African woman who has said so in America, I have
been written off as "crazy", "emotional",
"a whore" and "a hoax".
I
don't deny that I'm a controversial, provocative public figure.
I reject all man-made religions, be it Christianity, Islam, the
Jewish faith, Buddhism or any worship that was created by men. I
am a womanist and an African mother. I bare my breasts in the
river once a month and I believe in the womb.
Yet
still,
I
have not lied about the atrocities of the Arab world.
I have not lied about the cruel evils of Islam against African
people and those who refuse to join it.
I have told these truths, not because I hate any race or
religion of man, but because I believe that it's wrong for human
beings to take part in any cult of hate, any orgasm of violence
against other humans.
According
to my Sudanese Zarpunni (the women's neighborhood) and all the
black women before me, the Palestinians have sterilized black
women since the 1950's.
It
is well known by African women that our wombs are loathed in
Arab nations, because it is our wombs that produce the authentic
black man. Our tongue bequeaths him his heritage and identity.
Who
on this planet will deny me this truth?
In
America, I have been greatly criticized by my black American
brothers and sisters for supporting Israel instead of Palestine,
but as a black woman and a mother of black children, how can I
support the colorstruck machinations of the Palestinians?
Unfortunately,
the Americans have truly mistaken me for a witch, because the
Arabs have money to get their message out and I have only my
books and no money,
and
even then
the
media portrays me as an extremist and a supporter of Bush and
the Conservative Republicans,
which is an unmitigated lie.
I am as liberal and as Democratic as any American black,
but I also know the truth
about Arab Muslim societies and about the culture that creates
terrorism.
The
Black Americans have no knowledge of the true history that has
existed more than a thousand years between the Arab Muslim
invaders and the authentic African people. The powerful light
skinned Black American even looks more like the dark skinned
Arab than like the authentic charcoal African, so they are often
weak to the propaganda of false Islamic organizations in
America.
Organizations
that spread the lie
that Islam is an African religion
and that the Arab man is our brother,
the Israeli our enemy because of whiteness. They feel no bond
with Israel.
But
for the sake of my own nation, the Sudan, I am committed to
changing that. I feel very strongly that Israel and New Sudan
should form an alliance against the Arab world.
Obviously,
I am in disagreement with my beloved hero, Dr. John Garang, but
I truly believe that the peace talks in Machakos
will
produce nothing
but
dust, riches for the sellouts, and eventually, more Arab Muslim
racism, more exploitation of blacks by the Oil companies, more
black slaves for the kitchens of Jordan, Palestine, Egypt, Iraq,
Libya and Saudi Arabia.
Because
I am a woman and because the men love money more than they love
justice, I am given a kiss on the hand and not taken seriously.
I am even denied my place of honor in the organization's
struggle to free Sudan. My black brothers of Sudan are very
sexist and have called me Queen, but then expected the Queen to
lay on her back and be a mere follower. In time, of course, they
will regret this, because I am a very intelligent, impassioned
person. I say now to anyone that will listen,
-
and I don't say it for tired old men,
I say it for future generations -
that
the Arab Muslim government in Sudan must be overthrown.
There is no other way.
It
is impossible to have true peace and solidarity with the people
who have
called you "abeed" for a thousand years,
stolen and sold your children into slavery,
raped your mothers and killed your fathers,
over taxed you, stolen your land from you and subjected you to
racial profiling.
It
is not in the hearts of the blacks to go on being ruled and
humiliated by the Arabs.
And
because my people have named me "Queen Kola", and
because I have not yet lived up to that title, I feel that I
must denounce the money offered in the Kenya peace talks and
instead uphold the wishes of the people's hearts:
that
we be liberated at last from racial, religious and economic
dehumanization and oppression.
It's
no secret that the freedom fighters of Southern Sudan have
received guns and ammunition from Israel. Truly, your loyalty to
the Goddess Sudan has been flawless, and I submit, sincerely,
that I love you for loving my people. I stand by Israel, not
only because Israel has stood by me, but because the
Palestinians have defiled me.
I
truly pray that someday, there will be peace, love and
brotherhood between all mankind. The Arab, the African, the
European, the Jew, the Asian and all others, I pray, will
someday stand as one, but at this moment in time I am very sad
to report that the Arab world is not our friend, and that we
must recognize this or perish. I submit that both Israel and New
Sudan must stop at nothing to prevail against the evil forces
that choke them with malice and threaten their very existence.
For if the Arabs were to lay down their weapons today, there
would be no more violence. But if we of Israel and Sudan were to
lay down our weapons today, we would be dead, and the whole
world would be witness to yet another genocide.
War
is hell, my beloveds. But so is love. And sometimes, kicking a
man's ass is the only love he will accept.
Let
us stand against the Arab world, as David slew Goliath. This is
not what we wanted, it's what they wanted. And our children
deserve our protection.
In
the words of the ancient Nubians," 'So let it be written,
so let it be done'.
Tima
usrah!
(through fire comes the family)
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Sudanese American author Kola Boof gave the following speech
on Israeli radio in Tel Aviv, Sunday March 28th. Ms.
Boof's powerful message was broadcast throughout the entire
nation of Israel.
The speech is
reprinted this week in several Jewish American and Jewish
European newspapers.
--Nafisa Goma
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