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Bring Back Our Girls - The Search for Nigeria's Missing Schoolgirls and Their Astonishing Survival (Hardcover)
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Bring Back Our Girls - The Search for Nigeria's Missing Schoolgirls and Their Astonishing Survival (Hardcover)
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What happens after you click tweet?. . . The heart-stopping and
definitive account of the rescue mission to free hundreds of
Nigerian schoolgirls, and their heroic survival, after their 2014
kidnapping spurred a global social media campaign that prompted the
intervention of seven militaries, showing us the blinding
possibilities-for good and ill-of activism in our interconnected
world. In the spring of 2014, American celebrities and their
Twitter followers unwittingly helped turn a group of teenagers into
a central prize in the global War on Terror by retweeting
#BringBackOurGirls, a call for the release of 276 Nigerian
schoolgirls who'd been kidnapped by the little-known Islamist sect
Boko Haram. With just four words, their tweets launched an army of
would-be liberators, spies, and glory hunters into an obscure
conflict that few understood, in a remote part of Nigeria that had
just barely begun to use the internet. When hostage talks and
military intervention failed, the schoolgirls were forced to take
survival into their own hands. As their days in captivity dragged
into years, the young women learned to withstand hunger, disease,
and torment, and became witnesses and victims of unspeakable
brutality. Many of the girls were Christians who refused to take
the path offered them-converting to Islam. While the world's most
sophisticated surveillance technology sputtered out, a covert Swiss
agency and its Nigerian recruits worked painstakingly in the
shadows to free the girls. A powerful work of investigative
journalism, Bring Back Our Girls unfolds across 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 a
cautionary tale that plumbs the promise and peril of an era whose
politics are fueled by the power of hashtag advocacy-revealing how
wildfire social media activism is reshaping our relationship to
global politics.
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