Stolen Girls: Survivors of Boko Haram Tell Their Story
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Stolen Girls: Survivors of Boko Haram Tell Their Story
By (Author) Wolfgang Bauer
Translated by Eric Trump
Photographs by Andy Spyra
The New Press
The New Press
11th April 2017
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
362.880835209669
Physical Properties
Hardback
192
Width 145mm, Height 216mm
Description
One night in April 2014, members of the terrorist organization Boko Haram raided the small town of Chibok in northeast Nigeria and abducted 276 young girls from the local boarding school. The event caused massive, international outrage. Some of the girls were able to escape and award-winning journalist Wolfgang Bauer spent several weeks with them as they recounted their ordeal. In Stolen Girls, he gives voice to these girls, allowing them to speak for themselves - about their lives before the abduction, about the horrors during their captivity, and their dreams of a better future.
Reviews
Praise for Stolen Girls:
"In this powerful, painful, and jarring book, Die Zeit writer Wolfgang Bauer combines his own narrative with the oral testimonies of a number of women who escaped the clutches of Boko Haram after having been kidnapped, usually after violent attacks on their communities. Not a pleasant read but a vitally important one."
Kirkus Reviews
Author Bio
Wolfgang Bauer works for the leading weekly German newspaper "Die Zeit." For his reportage he won the Katholischer Medienpreis (Catholic Media Prize) and the Prix Bayeux-Calvados des Correspondants de Guerre. He lives in Berlin.
