Bring Back Our Girls

The Astonishing Survival and Rescue of Nigeria's Missing Schoolgirls

Bring Back Our Girls
Joe Parkinson, Drew Hinshaw
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h198 x 129mm - 400pg
3 Mar 2022 UK
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9781800750906
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Bounty hunters, the manpower of western militaries and special Swiss agents were all deployed but they either met road block 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. A heart-stopping thriller, a riveting narrative history and an incisive cultural analysis, Bring Back Our Girls is the definitive account of a kidnapping and digital campaign that changed our understanding of warfare, terrorism and online activism. With a plot that unfolds on four continents, from the remote forests of northern Nigeria to the White House; from clandestine meetings in Khartoum safe houses to century-old luxury hotels on picturesque lakes in the Swiss Alps, it is cautionary tale plumbing the promise and peril of an era whose politics are fuelled by the power of hashtag advocacy - and at the centre of which stand some exceptionally brave and resourceful girls.
' Everyone should read the testimonies of the Chibok girls who survived the capture . . . This book urges us to keep the stories of the girls kidnapped by Boko Haram in the public consciousness' -- Malala ' A dramatic work of investigative journalism that supplies all the missing puzzle pieces, uncovering for the first time intimate and crucial details about the girls' time in Sambisa forest, and the brave men and women who sacrificed so much to bring them back to their parents. A brilliant read' -- Helon Habila, author of The Chibok Girls ' A testament to the strength of the Chibok girls who resisted their captors and bravely asserted their humanity in the face of violent subjugation' -- Nadia Murad, 2018 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate ' A journalistic masterclass: a detailed and compelling story of the unsung heroes who won the release of Nigeria' s schoolgirls after the social media circus had moved on' -- Tom Wright, New York Times bestselling co-author of Billion Dollar Whale ' A nail-biter about survival told with Hitchcockian flair. Packed with their personal testimonies, along with fresh details of the hunt for them by a team of Swiss negotiators, Joe Parkinson and Drew Hinshaw have written a work of brilliant journalism' -- - Lesley Stahl, correspondent, ' 60 Minutes'
Joe Parkinson and Drew Hinshaw are both Wall Street Journal Pulitzer-prize finalists who have covered Nigeria for more than a decade. Their 2017 narrative on the Chibok kidnapping is cited as the definitive account of what happened in Nigeria before and after Twitter moved on, based on unparalleled access to the surviving Chibok girls themselves as well as the players who eventually won their freedom.

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