Diary of a Lost Girl: The Autobiography of Kola Boof

After US killed Osama (hurrah! doesn’t get old), Tanya Schneider posted an article about the author being his mistress & I thought, “What is wrong with this woman? Stockholm’s Syndrome meets Raise the Red Lantern.” Then I heard that she was the Candyman of Twitter, but after reading Diary of a Lost Girl: The Autobiography of Kola Boof, considering everything that has happened to her, I’d say that she is doing really well considering. I would not recommend this book for everyone. There is something in it to offend everyone. Really anti-traditional religion, especially Islam, but considering her life experience, understandable. It is sexually explicit & violent, but so is her life & it is an autobiography. She also has some controversial, both good & bad, about being black. She exposes internal racism within the black community against dark-skinned people. She believes in flipping the one drop rule: instead of one drop of black blood makes you black, one drop of white blood does not make you black & her goal is to make children as black as possible. Re: her relationship with Osama. I don’t think that it was a relationship. I think that she’s in denial & trying to put a positive spin on being a sex slave because she had one good day out of many bad ones & got amazing presents. When she met him, she was separated from people that she was with, who did nothing or could do nothing to help her. After running away, she was tracked to her home, raped, moved from her home to a luxury hotel, isolated without freedom to leave, beaten repeatedly, ridiculed (ex. being called a monkey, forced to walk around naked with a leash, etc), forced to have an abortion by being drugged & raped some more for an extended period of time. She is lucky that she is alive. And that’s not even the worse thing that happened to her in her life. I think that she is not a likable person & a fame whore, but I think that we have to be sensitive to all rape accounts even & especially when it comes from someone that isn’t sympathetic. This experience probably contributed to her character. (To be fair, I have been reading a lot about modern day slavery so I think that has colored my interpretation of the book as well.) If she had chosen to be with Osama, I would have said, “Get her out of the country,” but he chose her because a business partner & close friend had a crush on her. For him, it was basically an elaborate practical joke. She didn’t know that until much later in her captivity, but it explains why he chose her out of everyone in a restaurant & took so much time to track her down.”