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Extremism across the continent of Africa has been widely researched and reported; less covered are the stories of those who have been survivors—and resisters—of it.

, the debut book by ¹ú²úÊÓƵ National Fellow,ÌýAlexis Okeowo, is a vivid account of Africans who are courageously countering their continent’s wave of fundamentalism. Okeowo weaves together four narratives that form a powerful tapestry of modern Africa: a young couple, kidnap victims of Joseph Kony’s LRA; a Mauritanian waging a lonely campaign against modern-day slavery; a women’s basketball league flourishing amid war-torn Somalia; and a vigilante who takes up arms against the extremist group Boko Haram.Ìý

Complicating the simplistic good-guy, bad-guy narratives common in describing the continent, the book illuminates the inner lives of ordinary people doing the extraordinary — lives that are too often hidden, underreported, or ignored by the rest of the world.

´³´Ç¾±²ÔÌý¹ú²úÊÓƵ NYCÌýfor a conversation withÌýAlexis OkeowoÌýand BuzzFeed’sÌýMiriam ElderÌýon the state of extremism in Africa today — and how the local responses to it can better inform global national security policy.

PARTICIPANTS

Alexis OkeowoÌý
Staff writer,ÌýThe New Yorker
¹ú²úÊÓƵ National Fellow, Class of 2016 & 2017
Author,ÌýA Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa
2012 IRP Fellow, reporting from Nigeria

Miriam ElderÌý
World Editor, BuzzFeed News

Copies Of Alexis Okeowo’sÌýÌýwill be available for purchase.Ìý

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