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Stolen girls : survivors of Boko Haram tell their story
Title:
Stolen girls : survivors of Boko Haram tell their story
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Summary:
One night in April 2014, members of the terrorist organization Boko Haram raided the small town of Chibok in northeast Nigeria and abducted 276 young girls from the local boarding school. The event caused massive international outrage. Using the hashtag "Bring Back Our Girls," politicians, activists, and celebrities from all around the world--among them First Lady Michelle Obama and Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai--protested. Some of the girls were able to escape and award-winning journalist Wolfgang Bauer spent several weeks with them as they recounted their ordeal. In Stolen Girls, he gives voice to these girls, allowing them to speak for themselves--about their lives before the abduction, the horrors during their captivity, and their dreams of a better future.Bauer also examines the historical and political background of the Islamist terror in the heart of Africa, showing how Boko Haram works and describing the damage it has done to the fragile balance of ethnicities and cultures in one of the world's most diverse regions.
Uniform Title:
Geraubten Mädchen. English
Year Published:
2017
Physical Description:
152 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Note:
"Originally published in Germany as Die geraubten Mädchen: Boko Haram und der Terror im Herzen Afrikas in 2016 by Suhrkamp Verlag Berlin"--Title page verso.
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ISBN:
9781620972571
Publisher:
New York ; London : The New Press, 2017.