New Book Release: The Stolen Daughters of Chibok by Aisha Muhammed-Oyebode

In the middle of the night of April 14 to April 15 2014, terrorists abducted 276 girls from their secondary school’s dormitory in the town of Chibok, Northeast Nigeria. Over the following days, fifty seven girls managed to escape. For two years, 219 girls remained missing. 

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This book is a collection of written and pictorial narratives from the families of these stolen girls. Essays and analyses from acclaimed experts append their personal histories to create a tribute to the girls capturing their lives before the abduction and presenting the trauma of a community desperately learning to cope.