Bring Back Our Girls : The Astonishing Survival and Rescue of Nigeria’s Missing Schoolgirls

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‘Had me gripped from the outset’ Fergal Keane
In the spring of 2014, an American rap star unwittingly triggered an online hurricane with the ease of a tweet. Hitting an unprecedented nerve on Twitter, accompanied with the hashtag #BringBackOurGirls, the message called for the release of 276 Nigerian schoolgirls who’d been kidnapped by a little-known Islamic terrorist sect called Boko Haram.
Bounty hunters, the manpower of western militaries, and special Swiss agents were all deployed but they either met roadblock after road block or flew home empty-handed. Twitter flitted to the next crisis, leaving the Chibok girls to take survival into their own hands. As the days in captivity dragged into years, they became witnesses, and often victims, of unspeakable brutality that they chronicled in secret diaries. Many of the girls were Christians who refused to take the one easier path offered them – converting to Islam.

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