The Stolen Daughters of Chibok - Special Edition

In the middle of the night April 14 to 15, 2014, terrorist group, Boko Haram, abducted 276 girls from their secondary school’s dormitory in the town of Chibok, Northeast Nigeria. Over the following days, 57 girls managed to escape. For two years, 219 girls remained missing. During the last four months of 2015, in the heat of the worst of the insurgency, Aisha Muhammed- Oyebode, the CEO of the Murtala Muhammed Foundation (MMF) in Nigeria embarked on a project to interview, photograph, and document the accounts of the parents of each of the missing girls. The MMF’s team managed to meet the relatives of 210 of them. In the intervening years, 107 girls have made it home: four by Nigerian military/ paramilitary intervention, and 103 by negotiated release. At the time of going to press 112 girls remain unaccounted for. The Stolen Daughters of Chibok is a collection of supplemental essays from acclaimed experts, and interviews and photographs of these families. It is a tribute to the girls, and aims to capture their lives before the abduction and to highlight how their families have struggled to cope.