A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa Audiobook (Free)

WINNER OF THE 2018 PEN Open up BOOK AWARD

‘A wealthy and urgently necessary publication’ (NY Times Publication Review), A Moonless, Starless Sky is a masterful, humane work of journalism by Alexis Okeowo–a vivid narrative of Africans who are courageously resisting their continent’s influx of fundamentalism.

WITHIN A Moonless, Starless Sky Okeowo weaves together four narratives that form a powerful tapestry of contemporary Africa: a young couple, kidnap victims of Joseph Kony’s LRA; a Mauritanian waging a unhappy campaign against modern-day slavery; a women’s golf ball team flourishing amid war-torn Somalia; and a vigilante who takes up arms against the extremist group Boko Haram. This debut publication by one of America’s most acclaimed young journalists illuminates the internal lives of regular people doing the extraordinary–lives that are too often hidden, underreported, or disregarded by all of those other world.