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Sudan Needs Black Celebrities
Kola Boof | Posted March 3, 2008 9:52 AM
In hearing so many Black American celebrities refer to Latinos and Arabs as "brown brothers and sisters" and refer to African people as mere "cousins," I feel compelled to remind them that people of Sudan, your "real brothers and sisters," the ones who are the living replicas of your dead ancestors, desperately need your help.
Kola Boof is an award winning novelist and poet and National Chairwoman of Sudan's SSPP.
Angelina Jolie says "I'll do all that I can." Mia Farrow, another white female celebrity, is quite literally on the front lines of the genocide in Darfur. New York super publicist Meryl Zegarek saves lives in South Sudan as a part-time activist.
And to be sure that you know which famous blacks the media won't tell you are helping out, I myself was there the day that actor Danny Glover got frisked, handcuffed and jailed by police for standing in the doorway at the Sudanese Embassy in protest against the atrocities committed by my homeland's Black Arab Muslim government in North Sudan.
I can also attest to the sacrifices of heroic Black American journalist, Joe Madison, the very first American celebrity to risk slanderous attacks from oil companies and Arab-owned U.S. corporations in his commandeering an international campaign against the much denied North African slave trade.
This article isn't directed at that small band, though. It's more about people who are not doing anything to help, like one of the great heroines of my life--Winnie Mandela--someone I deeply love and was given only a five minute telephone appointment with, despite the lavishness of the evils being committed "on our watch" as a human race, and it's also about saying to the American media that it's wrong to allow those of us who do stand up to be so completely slandered, silenced or threatened by those who defend the Arab regime in North Sudan, regardless of how traumatized and eccentric we Pro-Southerners may be.
It is now less than a month since I was appointed National Chairwoman of the United States branch of South Sudan's Sudanese Sensitization Peace Project (the SSPP). This was a most ironic appointment considering the fact that I am a half-Arab Northerner, originally born Muslim, a "traitor" to the North. I did spy work for the SPLA (South), and now, in my job rounding up celebrities and politicians to take a stance on behalf of Darfur and the 2011 secession of South Sudan, I find myself greatly pained that absolutely none of the African Presidents of the African Union are doing what they should to challenge and confront President Bashir's regime in Khartoum, even as they acknowledge that he, and in full disclosure, my former boyfriend, Hasan al Turabi, are responsible for carrying out genocide.
Millions of blacks around the world--whether their worlds be Johannesburg, Harlem, Dakar, London or Los Angeles--love to evoke the names "Nubia" and "Cush" to the point of overkill, yet as we get high linking ourselves to some glorious ancient past, we place little stock in fixing our present or constructing our future. Indeed few of us in the west seem to remember that both Nubia and Cush are located in the country that the Black Egyptians of Kom Ombo refer to as--"Our Mother, the Goddess Sudan."
When my idol, Alice Walker, speaks of the little "brown children" whose heads are being bombed in Arab countries--I think of the babies in Sudan who look more like Alice and are also being bombed and filleted, but on a much grander scale than the children of Iraq--and I think of those Arab children, and how I, Kola Boof, have donated book royalties as charity for those Arab children, but how no American organizations or celebrities, black or Arab, seem to care about the charcoal babies in Sudan.
When Elaine Brown and bell hooks speak of their "Poor oppressed Palestinian brothers and sisters"--I, like most cocoa skinned North African women, think of the Palestinians in Port Sudan who murdered my uncle by kicking holes in his stomach for being "black" and getting promoted over them, and I think of the Palestinians who, in the course of their daily routines, casually refer to black skinned people as "abeed."
In hearing so many Black American celebrities refer to Latinos and Arabs as "brown brothers and sisters" and refer to African people as mere "cousins," I feel compelled to remind them that people of Sudan, your "real brothers and sisters," the ones who are the living replicas of your dead ancestors, desperately need your help. I ask of Africans worldwide--whatever happened to black people's love for other black people, or did we ever have it in the first place? And if we as blacks were never able to admire our own reflection as other people do theirs, but would rather dream idealistic fairytales about solidarity with people who, at best, have a "tan," then just how human are we in the first place, and just what right do we have to speak against the various invasions that have destroyed our ancestor's continent?
This is why I, and the SSPP, South Sudan and our ally Israel, thank God for the emergence of future President Barack Obama, a man who expresses an unwavering desire to see love, compassion and justice extended to all human beings, but who also understands the African view, that if our Arab brothers were to lay down their weapons today, there would be no more violence, yet if we of South Sudan and Israel were to lay down our weapons today, we would all be massacred, and the whole world would be claiming they never saw it coming.
Genocide, slavery, rape and colorism are wrong.
(To support South Sudan in becoming an independent nation in the year 2011, contact the SSPP Headquarters hotline in the Foreign Ministry Triangle at the capital of South Sudan in Juba. Or you can email the American branch President in New York City at info@thesspp.org.)
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March 3, 2008 12:17 PM
Not the Daily Voice, too!
More propoganda from the quintessential Jew Lover and Psycho hater
of black men Kola Spoof.
Sorry, I meant Boof, but considering what a hoax this woman is how can I
not accidentally call her Spoof?
As a black person I have the right to request the following:
Would somebody please give this attention starved professional bed wench
and negress a rest?
Sorry but to me Kola Boof makes black women look bad.
Blacks dont care about their image enough and thats whats wrong here.
I put Kola Boof in the same category as Tawanna Brawley, Susan Smith
and the Duke Rape Accuser. Black trash.
Kola Boof is not from Africa, she was invented by the CIA, she hates black men,
she's jealous of light skinned people and white women, she's got a face that launched
a million suicide bombers, she has no talent and she's a Jew lover.
If she's voting for Obama "Hussein", no wonder I'm supporting Hillary Clinton.
Please forgive my disappointment in Daily Voice.
This person is a Spoof and doesn't deserve any more free publicity.
March 3, 2008 12:18 PM
Not the Daily Voice, too!
More propoganda from the quintessential Jew Lover and Psycho hater
of black men Kola Spoof.
Sorry, I meant Boof, but considering what a hoax this woman is how can I
not accidentally call her Spoof?
As a black person I have the right to request the following:
Would somebody please give this attention starved professional bed wench
and negress a rest?
Sorry but to me Kola Boof makes black women look bad.
Blacks dont care about their image enough and thats whats wrong here.
I put Kola Boof in the same category as Tawanna Brawley, Susan Smith
and the Duke Rape Accuser. Black trash.
Kola Boof is not from Africa, she was invented by the CIA, she hates black men,
she's jealous of light skinned people and white women, she's got a face that launched
a million suicide bombers, she has no talent and she's a Jew lover.
If she's voting for Obama "Hussein", no wonder I'm supporting Hillary Clinton.
Please forgive my disappointment in Daily Voice.
This person is a Spoof and doesn't deserve any more free publicity.
March 3, 2008 3:12 PM
If I may correct the first poster--"Susan Smith" was a white woman, not a black woman.
As for Kola Boof, I see her as the rebirth of Queen Nzinga and Sojourner Truth.
The lies that are advanced about this woman
by her enemies have gotten to the point where they're desperate.
I fell in love in with Kola Boof after I saw
the 2 part interview that MSNBC did with her.
All anyone has to do is GOOGLE search this woman or visit her wonderful website to find out what a brilliant and courageous sister she is. A sister
who obviously loves all black people with more
intensity and intelligence than most of us could muster.
The discourse hasn't even turned to her writing
talent yet.
Kola Boof has written
some of the most affecting and powerful African
literature of this century. That's not hype.
I dare anyone to read "Long Train to the Redeeming Sin", "Flesh and the Devil" or "Diary of a Lost Girl" and then claim that this woman
has no talent or purpose.
Unlike so many black activists and authors
of the moment, Kola's actually relevant.
She's the only artist I know who discusses
the issues facing blacks right now. Who else
talks about skin bleaching, colorism and
challenges both Christianity and Islam?
I can't think of too many women that I admire
more than Kola Boof (nee "Naima Bint Harith).
I am a man originally from Nigeria, now living
in London and I say "The Gods Love Kola".
Like Achebe said. "When you bring the people
Kola, you bring the people life."
I support Sudan and I can't wait for Kola's next book.
We love you Queen Kola.
March 3, 2008 7:47 PM
Kola Boof on Daily Voice too? Keith Boykin takes another slash at what little is left of his own credibility. Too disappointing. Peter Bergen, a legitimate, credible journalist has found so many holes in Boof's fantasies (sorry, "history") that she's obviously a clown looking for celebrity.
http://www.peterbergen.com/bergen/articles/details.aspx?id=268
Boykin needs to look at his own credibility - all the pandering for celebrity doesn't look good on you, Boykin.
March 3, 2008 8:53 PM
Alright folks I half to jump in here now.
What has Peter Bergen got to do with Kola
Boof's work on behalf of Sudan?
Didn't MSNBC and FOX NEWS discredit Bergen?
I do believe they did because I watched the
MSNBC report myself and they showed how
Peter Bergen has a personal ego problem.
I will post the link but I still don't see
what Peter Bergen has to do with Kola Boofs
work in Sudan. Wasn't his problem related
to Osama Bin Laden and Kola?
http://doorofkush.50megs.com/custom.html
All the editors of Daily Voice, not just
Keith Boykin, are doing a masteful job with
this site. It's fast paced and current.
I don't see how Keith is responsible for the
article written by Boof or the content of
anything else on this site.
Lastly, as an African American woman, I found
the article by Ms. Boof to be timely, important, well written and amazingly touching.
Is Kola Boof supposed to disappear off the
face of the earth just because Peter Bergen has
a problem with her? It's not like we don't know he wrote that racist first post.
I encourage Daily Voice and Kola Boof to keep
up the good work. Africa needs you.
March 3, 2008 10:39 PM
I agree with Real Roxanne, Kola Boof is great, and, when the ones who mock her get the same energy or even a clue as to why the USA is not at all interested into getting the USA or Hillary "save the world" Clinton, like my husbad did with the genocide in Rwanada, to stand up for the genocide in Darfur, get back to me. And, they ahve not one shred of crediblity on anything when they pull the Rove tactic of calling Obama by his middle name, and taking thier hangups about Keith Boykin as well with shrill insults, that speaks loud and clear, and, anyone can see right through the petty, catty jealousy.
March 4, 2008 8:41 PM
thank you keith for the diversity herein!
keep shaking off the haters herein!!!
success is alwys the best revenge
it always pains me deeply when i see black people attack afrocentric messengers as they simultaneously ignore eurocentric truths
shame!!!
fyi:
these slurs against kola will never protect any of you from the truths she so masterfully pens...
kola is my queen
and she adores REAL black men
as i do
kola is a real person
she is a gifted sage
and
i am proud to be her sister and friend
i voted for hillary
i want a female prez!!!!!!!!
i would vote for kola!!!
smile
see more on kola at my sites...
wake up!
blacken your minds!!!
alicia banks
www.geocities.com/ambwww
March 4, 2008 8:52 PM
Kola Boof is a cartoon - nothing more than an Ann Coulter with a tan, pandering her agenda of hatred for African Americans, spouting her "African-ness" even though she wasn't raised there, and hitting African Americans over the head because they aren't from Africa like she claims to be. Hypocrisy.
There are so many holes in her mythical life story that she cannot be taken seriously. Only the likes of Keith Boykin will be duped by her, because plays into his ravenous need for celebrity.
I find her outright laughable - she is an embarrassment to the African Continent. She is undignified and gives women a bad name.
March 4, 2008 10:40 PM
Whether you like Ms.Boof or not one thing is true for sure and that is we people of African descent better come together as one because those who hate us are doing just that they are trying to divide us at every level.I don't care if you are fem/butch,str8,sgl,bi,dem,rep,dark,light,short,tall,north,south,east,west, old,young,english-speaking,non-english speaking,american born ,non-american born,educated,uneducated,rich,middle,poor our rights dignity our very exitence is at stakes if we stay divided. Black Americans should be strenghtening ties with Africans throughout the disporia. PEACE, and Love to all the Brothers & Sisters.
March 4, 2008 11:16 PM
I can see Kola needing to aquire celebrity in
order to draw attention to her nation's cause,
and I don't think that's a bad thing. In fact I
rather admire her desperation and her passion.
I have not witnessed too many people be so fully
committed to a cause as she seems to be. Shes willing to be naked, cry on tv, sing (and sing
beautifully I might add) at book signings and
there's no question shes a formidable novelist.
What I find baffling is that her detractors dont
see any good merits about her. I could accept some of what "WHATEVER" is saying but I dont see
how he expects people, especially black people
and Africans, to completely write this woman off.
She is ten times more appealing than Peter Bergen,
who by the way, was proven wrong about his comments about Ms Boof and she's entertaining and she's gutsy. Talk about sheer nerve.
I hardly think she deserves the demonization that
so many of the internet trolls try to dish out.
Amy Winehouse, Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan are "clowns" IMO. Kola Boof, though spirited, is hardly as messed up as they are.
March 4, 2008 11:33 PM
A few comments on what others have said:
1. As editor of the site, Keith is responsible for soliciting (or accepting), editing, and publishing this nonsense.
2. When I google "Sudan Sensitization Peace Project," the only mentions of it I find are in Kola's press releases and self-promoting articles like this one. It doesn't appear to exist.
3. What Bergen did to get Boof so mad was point out some glaring factual errors in the stories she tells about herself. You people should really check out the link to his Kola page in "whatever"'s post above.
4. Where does Kola get off calling out Winnie Mandela? Winnie is a real, public person. Kola is an anonymous internet poster with a delusional/histrionic personality disorder.
5. Speaking of "Kola Spoof," Keith, you should google that phrase and follow the link. The joke is on you.
March 5, 2008 12:39 AM
Stubby, please explain why we should check out
Peter Bergen's page when his comments were
proven by MSNBC to be a lie?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHtrRamIe7M
I know of several celebrities involved with the Sudan Sensitization Peace Project, not just Kola Boof. Can you comment on that?
I had already checked those press releases and found that there was a telephone number for the African Congress in South Africa. I called and they gave me the number to the SSPP in South Sudan where it was confirmed that they've been around for quite a while.
Can you comment on that, Stubby?
Internet "Trolls" have posted all sorts of
ridiculous haterade sites about this woman,
Stubby. Are you suggesting we should give
much credence to public hate BLOGS???
What reasonable journalist would create a
site called "Kola Spoof"? Do you think it's
right to call this woman a "JEW HATER" and
"Promoter of Homosexuality"?
Do you realize how racist your staff of
"Kola haters" are?
You say Ms. Boof's nothing more than an internet poster, but I saw Kola Boof in person at the Schomburg Center in Harlem last summer and she seemed to be a real person to me.
She sang, read from her many published
books and was warmly welcomed by an apparently
strong fan base.
http://poetwomen.50megs.com/custom2.html
If anything these facts point out your own
lack of credibility Stubby, and on top of it, you're making a lot of people not like Peter Bergen.
I know this might shock you, but I don't think
many people really care about Ms. Boof's past
or any of that stuff.
She's a talented black woman and she speaks for
a more afrocentric crowd of black folks who couldn't care less about the issues you raise. They simply like what Ms. Boof has to say and the books she writes.
You're the one making Kola Boof into an iconic
figure by whining and by asking this site to
committ censorship, just because you don't like
somebody else's opinion.
March 5, 2008 8:30 AM
HEY SOME FOLKS WHO STARVE FOR ATTENTION SIMPLY HATE THOSE WHO EARN IT AND THE RESPECT IT COMMANDS. GO KOLA, SHE IS A REAL TAKE NO PRISONERS ASS KICKER. ALL HAIL THE QUEEN. I DON'T KNOW WHAT SHE SAID ABOUT WINNIE AND DON'T CARE I STILL LOVE WINNIE AND KOLA IS ENTITLED TO HER OPINIONS AS I AM TO MINE. NUF SED!!
March 5, 2008 1:12 PM
Gee, Banning High, you know an awful lot about Kola! :)
You've illustrated my point about delusional and histrionic.
Of course you're a real person. You just don't have a firm grip on reality.
You can keep on being crazy, baby. Just don't expect me to respect it.
March 5, 2008 11:41 PM
To Stubby:
How can we not know a lot about Kola
after you instructed us to GOOGLE up
the woman? DUH!
How can we not know a lot about this
person after you've put up whole websites
just to trash her? LOL! You're the one
making this chick a household name!
In fact your whole paranoid fixation with
this woman is like so over the top.
Maybe you're so much like her that you
can't stand her?
Anyway I talked to some other people and
nobodys all that interested one way or the
other about Kola.
Speaking of "crazy", your last post
referring to me as "baby" and apparently
speaking to me as if I'm Kola definitely
rates you as one for the "cukoos nest".
March 6, 2008 8:28 AM
BH: "I had already checked those press releases and found that there was a telephone number for the African Congress in South Africa. I called and they gave me the number to the SSPP in South Sudan where it was confirmed that they've been around for quite a while."
By checked, you mean proofread, right?
So what's the number for this secret "SSPP hotline," Ms. High (as a kite)? Who are the celebrity endorsers you know so much about? What did Winnie Mandela say in your little phone chat?
Hey Keith, guess what? The Committee to Move the Capital of Mozambique to the Moon (COMOCAMOMO)just named me world precinct captain. George Clooney is headlining at our fundraiser. To donate, call 1-800-SHE'S-NUTS or email our supreme leader at fake.email@comocamom.net.
All Hail King Stubby!
March 6, 2008 12:51 PM
You really are immature.
My name is Belson and quite a few people
know who I am, I'm a journalist, so it makes
you look all the more paranoid, my friend.
The SSPP hotline to Juba, Sudan:
+249 (0) 126-193-715
This is the number that I received from
the African Congress in South Africa.
A white British guy answered in Sudan and
confirmed the history of the SSPP as well as
Ms. Boof's very recent appointment.
I have no reason to defend this woman, and in
fact, I am still skeptical about quite a lot
of her story.
It's not that you and I disagree, Stubby, it's
that you don't help your case by being immature
and petulant. Your way of attacking seems
personal and not professional.
March 7, 2008 3:32 AM
>My name is Belson and quite a few people
>know who I am, I'm a journalist, so it makes
>you look all the more paranoid, my friend."
My name is Kennison, and quite a few people know who I am, I'm a Sony Pictures executive, so that makes you look all the more delusional, Kola.
http://www.thumperscorner.com/cgi/discus/show.cgi?tpc=11222&post=61702#POST61702
March 7, 2008 8:25 AM
BH: "I'm a journalist"
Only on websites that accept your fake news stories...like this one.
"This is the number that I received from the African Congress in South Africa."
Why can the number you say you used to call the Global African Congress only be found in your press releases?
"I have no reason to defend this woman, and in fact, I am still skeptical about quite a lot of her story."
You can't remember from one post to the next what pose you're striking. Earlier on this same this page, you called anyone who doubts your story a racist, and said that no one should even look at a highly respected journalist's documentation of one of your lies.
"It's not that you and I disagree, Stubby"
Unless it's that you have serious mental health issues...yes, we do disagree.
Look at what you've posted here: you have unnamed celebrities flocking to your cause, you have an unnamed "white British" guy confirming your story, you're chatting on the phone with Winnie Mandela. Then, when people start getting skeptical, you -- out of nowhere -- yell that somebody's calling you "JEW HATER" and "Promoter of Homosexuality"!
Where did that come from? The voices in your head?
March 7, 2008 1:20 PM
So waiiiiiit a minute. LOL
Haters are trying
to claim SSPP doesn't exist when I
work for it everyday in NYC?
Yahya Osman is a real person, so
is Junior Jawara Blake at WVIP Radio,
so is Dr Osakwe Osifo Jr. and
so is Reverend Dobbins in Brooklyn.
Any doubts I had about Ms. Boof are
all gone after these bs smear postings.
Stubby you got a 'fatal attraction' bruh,
you need to stop LISSEN'N to them voices
in your head.
How you gone look when they have their
rally in NY in September?
FYI, Banning High's email is copyeditor@post.com
and he did give you the number to Sudan's main
office of SSPP. You trifling.
March 7, 2008 5:20 PM
"Banning High's email is copyeditor@post.com"
There's one mystery solved. That's a Kola Boof email address. Google it and you pull up all her press releases.
That's pretty funny: even Kola's publicist sock puppet has doubts about her story!
You're a loon, Kola/Banning High/Niece Harper. This case is closed.
March 7, 2008 9:27 PM
Read the newest posts at kolaspoof.blogspot.com.
March 9, 2008 2:24 PM
She opens with calling us "Black Americans". So we "Black Americans" should care about Africa and Africans when she can't even acknowledge within herself that we are cosidered African Americans!
Try referring to us as African Americans and then maybe we all will have more of a kinship to the continent then we do. Damn people get with the program or still continue to be manipulated into believeing that the United States gives a f*** about "Black Anything"! She lost me from the jump!
March 18, 2008 3:30 AM
What a pity.
First, I think Kola wrote some really judgmental stuff in her post. You dont rally people to support you by being so accusatory. Often it does not work. For Kola to align herself with one crowd against another in a war situation is such a dangerous territory to tread in. I dont see how the massacres in Sudan by muslims are worse than those in Arab countries by Israel? To align oneself with the state of Israel (one group) against the muslim government in Sudan (another group), is to me, hopeless in the quelling of fires. I think that's one place where, even for me, an African who currently lives in Africa, just get my ears (back) up about the legetimacy of Kola's message. I don't like Winnie Mandela, although I feel really sad about what she has gone through. But still I dont understand Kola's accusation of her (and others like Alice Walker) non-involvement in Kola's Sudan campaign.
The genocide in Dafur is appalling, and I am not sure Kola's message in this post is contributing much to the ceasefire. It is much too aligned and so full of, what to me seems like, random accusations.
I wonder how people in southern Sudan would react in learning about such petty politics engaged in by people in far far away places and far from the warzones, but apparantly on their behalf.
Also, the hieraching of blackness or Africanness in Kola's post is so damaging. Brown babies are no different to charcoal black babies, wherever they are in the world. No different whatsoever.
What a pity.
March 19, 2008 3:15 PM
AFRICA FOR THE ARRICANS RASTA