A Moonless, Starless Sky Quotes

“It was both an ordinary and rare kind of bravery, the kind that they didn't think about everyday because they were just trying to live their lives, but that was incredible given the danger they faced.”
― Alexis Okeowo, A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa

“Liberty had at first left her disoriented, unsure if she could be on her own, and then it opened her”
― Alexis Okeowo, A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa

“The boys can play football on the road, on the streets, but it doesn’t look good to a community if girls are playing sports outside.”
― Alexis Okeowo, A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa

“There was something about a group of girls, urgently devoted to scoring a goal, or making a basket, through any means necessary, scuffling, pushing, and pulling, that deeply offended men who couldn’t stand to see women with both strength and agency.”
― Alexis Okeowo, A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa

“In the village when a slave says he does not want to be a slave anymore, people will ask, 'Why? Who are you? Your mother was a slave, your grandmother was a slave. Who are you?”
― Alexis Okeowo, A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa