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Nafisa_goma
Veteran Poster
Username: Nafisa_goma
Post Number: 318
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 3 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, November 02, 2007 - 08:30 pm: | 
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Kola Boof's "Diary of a Lost Girl" hit
the Top 5 National Bestsellers list
in DENMARK!
http://www.berlingske.dk/article/20071102/kultur/111021276/
Berlingske is Denmark's leading
daily newspaper and this ENTIRE ARTICLE
is about the success of Kola's memoirs in
Denmark.
Foreign rights for all her books have now
been requested.
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**This is the first time since
Alex Hailey's "ROOTS" that a book
by a Black Author has made Denmark's
Top 5 of the Year List.
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Alexdouglass
Newbie Poster
Username: Alexdouglass
Post Number: 10
Registered: 09-2007
Rating:
Votes: 3 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, November 03, 2007 - 01:32 pm: |
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Wow! Not only that Osama-obsessed feature (and whatever happened to not wanting to talk about that?) - but
Now there's a whole blog devoted to Kola!
Check out:
kolaspoof.blogspot.com
The guy has some really interesting stuff... |
Schakspir
AALBC .com Platinum Poster
Username: Schakspir
Post Number: 1193
Registered: 12-2005
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, November 03, 2007 - 02:09 pm: |
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I should sell my stuff to Europe. If KB's rants can make the bestseller list in Denmark(the country that hosted the anti-Muhammad cartoons in one of its newspapers, so maybe it's no surprise they are reading KB for entertainment), then I should be able to fix something up. |
Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 10591
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 2 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, November 03, 2007 - 03:25 pm: |
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Gee, Alexdouglass, you're turning into a regular Nafisa Goma. You track kola's every move and then come here to keep us up to date on her activites. Why is she the only thing you ever post about on this board and why are you so fixated on kola boof to the extent that you provide free publicity for a women who does not discriminate between good or bad press just as long as it keeps her name in the spotlight??? |
Nafisa_goma
Veteran Poster
Username: Nafisa_goma
Post Number: 320
Registered: 01-2006
Rating: 
Votes: 4 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, November 03, 2007 - 08:08 pm: |
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Rune Langhoff wrote the article about
the dominance of Kola's book on the Danish
charts.
Ms. Boof is not responsible for the content
of the article or what the people of Denmark
wish to speak or write about.
Kola is still savoring her award win
in SWEDEN, so her status in the UK and
now Denmark is just further proof of her
selling power in Europe--something that
few black writers can boast about.
Now that she has one of the most powerful
literary agents in New York:
http://artsnet.net/qb/biobs.htm
I'm sure her success in Europe will translate
to the United States.
Swedish World Author's Pen:
http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/awards/kola_boof_wins_swedish_woman_to_woma n_award_69179.asp
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Nafisa_goma
Veteran Poster
Username: Nafisa_goma
Post Number: 321
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 2 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, November 03, 2007 - 08:14 pm: |
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Oops, must'nt forget Kola's astounding success
in Nigeria and South Africa.
http://www.farafinamagazine.com/editions/issue3/kolaboof.htm
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Schakspir
AALBC .com Platinum Poster
Username: Schakspir
Post Number: 1194
Registered: 12-2005
Rating: 
Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, November 04, 2007 - 02:41 pm: |
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The link doesn't actually specify that Bob Silverstein is representing Kola Boof. Just as there is typically no evidence to suggest that Kola really was sleeping with a football player named Cliff, or that she was feted at the Schomburg Center, or that she really did suck Osama Bin Laden's dick. And I would not be surprised if that Danish page was in fact doctored--or maybe Danes are actually that stupid, since they did have the gall to put out those racist anti-Muhammad cartoons(not out of any sense of misguided bravery, but because they are fucking idiots, and racist to boot). Hell, the Danes are probably just laughing at Kola, the same way Steven Colbert was.... |
Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 10600
Registered: 01-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, November 04, 2007 - 03:32 pm: |
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One has to wonder why Kola just doesn't go into "exile" and relocate to a country that holds her in the regard that she so slavishly craves, instead of staying here in America where she is not taken seriously. |
Chrishayden
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 5696
Registered: 03-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, November 05, 2007 - 11:40 am: |
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One has to wonder why Kola just doesn't go into "exile" and relocate to a country that holds her in the regard that she so slavishly craves, instead of staying here in America where she is not taken seriously
(Forgive her, Kola. She is really a nice lady)
Chris "Gandhi" Hayden |
Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 10602
Registered: 01-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, November 05, 2007 - 12:09 pm: |
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Forgiveness from Kola is at the bottom on the list of things I want from life, chrishayden, and the second to last thing on the list is a need for your patronizing swill. |
Alexdouglass
Regular Poster
Username: Alexdouglass
Post Number: 11
Registered: 09-2007
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, November 07, 2007 - 09:08 am: |
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Yeah, Cynique - you're right, I'm pretty much nothing but a Kola-scold in these parts. I do read a lot of the board, but I originally discovered Thumperscorner while looking into the shadier parts of the Boof saga.
I'm not Pepe, the guy writing the Kola Spoof blog, but I think he's doing a pretty good job establishing once and for all that most of her story is bunk... |
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