Nigeria: Boko Haram - Inside Nigeria's Unholy War - By Mike Smith

18 March 2015
book review

"I'm not scared because I think the worst has happened," says a 14-year-old girl who defied Boko Haram's burning of her school by continuing to take lessons at the premises of the damaged building. "There's nothing left for them to attack". At the time she was speaking, in May 2012, she and her colleagues believed that Boko Haram's depravity could not get any worse.

Two years later they were proved wrong. The Nigerian militant group went to another school in Chibok and abducted 276 girls. They took them to Sambisa Forest with the stated purpose of enslaving them into forced marriages.

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