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The stolen daughters of Chibok

Title: The stolen daughters of Chibok / Aisha Muhammed-Oyebode ; photographs by Akintunde Akinleye.
Author: Muhammed-Oyebode, Aisha
Publication: Brooklyn, NY : powerHouse Books, 2022.

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Additional Authors

Akinleye, Akintunde, 1971-

Description

278 pages : color illustrations, color maps; 31 cm

Summary

In the middle of the night on April 14, 2014, terrorist group, Boko Haram, abducted 276 girls from their secondary school's dormitory in the town of Chibok, northeastern Nigeria. Over the following days, 57 girls managed to escape. For two years, 219 girls remained missing. Then, in May 2016, the first of the missing students, Aisha Nkeki Ali, was found by the Nigerian military. In October 2016, 21 of the missing girls were released by Boko Haram in a deal brokered by the International Red Cross and the Swiss Government. Two more girls were found by the military in the last few months of 2016. One hundred ninety five girls are still missing. Words have a power that numbers can never have. During the last four months of 2015, in the heat of the worst of the insurgency, Aisha Muhammed-Oyebode, the CEO of the Murtala Muhammed Foundation (MMF) in Nigeria embarked on a project to interview, photograph, and document the accounts of the parents of each of the missing girls. The MMF's team managed to meet the relatives of 201 of them, and also interviewed some of the 57 escaped girls. The Daughters of Chibok is a collection of these interviews and photographs--a tribute to the girls--which aims to capture their lives before the abduction and to highlight how their families have struggled to cope afterward. For the families of the girls, and for the Chibok community, the trauma of this experience remains a daily reality.

Subject

Genre/Form

Interviews.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword / Olusegun Obasanjo -- A note on the testimonies and photographs / Murtala Muhammed Foundation -- The stolen daughters of Chibok: Tragedy and resilience in Nigeria's northeast / Aisha Muhammed-Oyebode -- The Chibok girls: Structural violence, gender, and education in Nigeria's northeast / Mojúbàolú Olufúnké Okome -- The construct of women in the northern Nigerian Muslim imagination / Muhammadu Sanusi II -- Forlorn and forgotten / Adaobi Nwaubani -- A history of violence / Helon Habila -- The Chibok girls and the paradoxical affiliation with their abductors / Femi Oyebode -- When scars become trophies / Matthew Hassan Kukah -- Chibok on our minds / Wole Soinka -- On the psychological needs of the Chibok girls / Aishatu Yusha'u Armiya'u -- Hide-and-seek / Titilope Sonuga -- A fight for the soul of the world / Stephanie Busari -- Our voices and our hearts / Esther Ibanga -- BBOG, a new type of activism / Jibrin Ibrahim -- Extracts from the secret diaries -- Tending to the needs of the Chibok girls: An Islamic perspective / Nurudeen Lemu and Haleemah Ahmad -- Daughters of Chibok: What pathways for reintegration and resilience? / Chris Kwaja -- Prioritizing mental health in in post insurgency recovery / Fatima Akilu -- Proof of life: An interview with Zannah Bukar Mustapha / Eghose Imasuen -- To our girls in Nigeria / Graça Machel -- The Chibok daughters and their families.

Call Number

Sc G 23-62

ISBN

1576878597
9781576878590

OCLC

973058758

Author

Muhammed-Oyebode, Aisha, author, interviewer.

Title

The stolen daughters of Chibok / Aisha Muhammed-Oyebode ; photographs by Akintunde Akinleye.

Publisher

Brooklyn, NY : powerHouse Books, 2022.

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Akinleye, Akintunde, 1971- photographer.

Research Call Number

Sc G 23-62

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