WINNER FROM THE 2018 PEN Open up BOOK AWARD

‘A rich and urgently required reserve’ (NY Times Publication Review), A Moonless, Starless Sky is a masterful, humane function of journalism by Alexis Okeowo–a vivid narrative of Africans who are courageously resisting their continent’s wave of fundamentalism.

IN THE Moonless, Starless Sky Okeowo weaves jointly four narratives that form a robust tapestry of modern Africa: a young couple, kidnap victims of Joseph Kony’s LRA; a Mauritanian waging a lonely advertising campaign against modern-day slavery; a women’s golf ball team flourishing amid war-torn Somalia; and a vigilante who occupies arms against the extremist group Boko Haram. This debut reserve by among America’s most acclaimed young journalists illuminates the internal lives of regular people doing the extraordinary–lives that are all too often hidden, underreported, or ignored by all of those other world.