Just days after London's top Arabic daily newspaper, "Al-Sharq Al-awsat" used an article by a Sudanese diplomat to formally disown and degrade Sudan's most infamous woman writer, Kola Boof...the bickering back and forth between America (where Kola Boof lives) and Sudan has only gotten more intense.

In a press statement this morning, Kola Boof, who is currently on the bestseller list at the prestigious  http://books.aalbc.com/bestsellers.htm let it be known once again that she (who is half-Arab and was born Muslim) would like to see the Arab Muslim government of her country abolished and driven out of Sudan. Ms. Boof said:

"It doesn't matter that I was born to a Muslim-Egyptian father in the North. It doesn't matter that I am a brown Arab woman. What matters is the fact that Sudan has become Satan's throne in Africa. The Khartoum government is the not only financing and carrying out the biggest holocaust since Nazi Germany, but they are also killing the true essence of what makes Sudan African--the Blue Black people of the South. I suppose this legendary racism, this colorism of yellow and brown against Blue Black is a holdover from the colonial days of England, but I would like to see Israel kick the Arab world's ass for what they are doing to African children. I would like to see the Arab world fall on its own sword and be driven into justice once and for all. This evil against Black people and against women has no place in a world that claims peace, love and harmony. These people have attempted to kill me at least once and threatened my life many times, just for simply speaking my mind, and yet no one in the press sees fit to make an issue of it. To show how dastardly and unfair these Arab Muslim regimes are. How holy unhuman they are. The whole world, and especially England, just wallows in silence. Truly, it's cowardly. For if we are Black people from anywhere on this planet, then we must support Israel against the Arabs. Neither is our brother, mind you. But one is our executioner and bully as we live and breathe. Let us send our prayers to Israel."

Kola Boof is the author of "Long Train to the Redeeming Sin: Stories of African Women", "Diary of a Lost Girl" and "Every Little Bit Hurts". In May of 2003, she is set to star in the film "SINS OF A LIVING WOMAN", the story of a Nigerian Muslim woman stoned to death for an adulterous love affair. The film's Ethiopian producer, Russom Damba, is casting "Amistad's" Djimon Hansou as Boof's lover--the film is also to feature Alfre Woodard, Akosua Busia and be directed by acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck, who made "LUMUMBA". For more on Kola Boof, search the web.