BOOK REVIEW: Mercenaries, stars and armchair warriors: what happened to the kidnapped Chibok girls
‘Bring Back Our Girls’ is an interesting study in how power has shifted to allow celebrities to force political action
30 September 2021 - 05:10
You might vaguely remember the shocking news of 276 girls in Nigeria who were kidnapped by Boko Haram.
Maybe you ramped up the Twitter storm by reposting #BringBackOurGirls, a hashtag that spread globally and piled pressure on the Nigerian government to mount a rescue mission...
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