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Author
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
The kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls by Boko Haram in 2014 made global headlines. Having developed unprecedented access to the Chibok girls, Sesay shares an intimate account of the night Boko Haram attacked, exclusive details about their years in captivity, and their daring tales of escape.
2) Girl
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"I was a girl once, but not any more." So begins Girl, Edna O'Brien's harrowing portrayal of the young women abducted by Boko Haram. Set in the deep countryside of northeast Nigeria, this is a brutal story of incarceration, horror, and hunger; a hair-raising escape into the manifold terrors of the forest; and a descent into the labyrinthine bureaucracy and hostility awaiting a victim who returns home with a child blighted by enemy blood. From one...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
FRONTLINE follows health officials tracking the deadly disease and trying to stop its rampant spread. The film shows how the outbreak is endangering health- care workers, overwhelming hospitals and getting worse. Also, FRONTLINE investigates accounts that members of the Nigerian military have been committing atrocities in the fight against Boko Haram - the Islamist militants who kidnapped nearly 300 schoolgirls in April. Two timely and late-breaking...
Author
Series
SEAL Team Six novel volume 7
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Thomas Crocker's SEAL Team Six crew deploys to the Nigerian jungle to combat arms and human trafficking by Boko Haram. The charismatic Boko Haram leader Ratty Festus, also known as the Leopard, has been terrorizing drought-ridden northeastern Nigeria: raiding villages, blowing up government buildings, and kidnapping schoolgirls. When Thomas Crocker and his Black Cell team, who are in the country on a special training mission, hear about a possible...
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A new pair of shoes, a university degree, a husband -- these are the things that a girl dreams of in a Nigerian village. And with a government scholarship right around the corner, everyone can see that these dreams aren't too far out of reach. But the girl's dreams turn to nightmares when her village is attacked by Boko Haram, a terrorist group, in the middle of the night. Kidnapped, she is taken with other girls and women into the forest where she...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Okri's new collection of short stories blur parallel realities and walk the line between darkness and magic. Is what you see all there is? Look again. 0Playful, frightening, even shocking - the stories in this collection blur the lines between illusion and reality. This is a writer at the height of his power, making the reader think, making them laugh, and sometimes making them want to look away while holding their gaze. Stories here are set in London,...
8) Sunburst
Author
Series
Sky King Ranch volume 2
Language
English
Description
"When former Navy Seal and lifelong bachelor Ranger Kingston is called upon to take part in a rescue mission to save his brother Colt, who has been kidnapped by terrorists in Nigeria, he is shocked to find among the hostages a woman he knows and could never forget. Noemi Sutton was attempting to return a young girl to her family in Boko Haram territory when she and the girl found themselves taken hostage, along with several others. And while Ranger...
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
As the "Giant of Africa" Nigeria is home to about twenty percent of the population of Sub-Saharan Africa, serves as Africa's largest producer of oil and natural gas, comprises Africa's largest economy, and represents the cultural center of African literature, film, and music. Yet the country is plagued by problems that keep it from realizing its potential as a world power. Boko Haram, a radical Islamist insurrection centered in the northeast of the...
10) Return to Bamako
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb...Daesh...Boko Haram. So many extremist movements, of which Africa has become a breeding ground, have declared war against Western values and people.. Beyond the misunderstandings that often paralyze us, we have to ask ourselves the real question: how did we get here? Filmed in Mali, RETURN TO BAMAKO is a deep dive into the land of Islam, seeking to understand the causes and challenges of the threat posed by the rise...
Author
Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In Our Bodies, Their Battlefields, longtime intrepid war correspondent Christina Lamb makes us witness to the lives of women in wartime. An award-winning war correspondent for twenty-five years (she's never had a female editor) Lamb reports two wars--the "bang-bang" war and the story of how the people behind the lines live and survive. At the same time, since men usually act as the fighters, women are rarely interviewed about their experience of...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In 2015, Dionne Searcey was covering the economy for The New York Times, living in Brooklyn with her husband and three young children. Saddled with the demands of a dual-career household and motherhood in an urban setting, her life was in a rut. She decided to pursue a job as the paper's West Africa bureau chief, landing with her family in Dakar, Senegal, where she found their lives turned upside down. They struggled to figure out how they fit into...
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