Stolen Girls

Survivors of Boko Haram Tell Their Story

By: Wolfgang Bauer, Eric Frederick Trump - translator

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

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. Using the hashtag "Bring Back Our Girls", politicians, activists, and celebrities from all around the world - among them First Lady Michelle Obama and Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai - protested.

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.

Bauer also examines the historical and political background of the Islamist terror in the heart of Africa, showing how Boko Haram works and describing the damage it has done to the fragile balance of ethnicities and cultures in one of the world's most diverse regions.

©2016 Suhrkamp Verlag Berlin; translation copyright 2017 by The New Press (P)2017 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Excellent

The most I have learnt about Boko Haram. Tragic first hand stories , but a well needed reminder of what went on and is going on in Nigeria .

Using Islam as a cancer

If you give man a weapon to dominate, he will use it to its fullest strength. and it's exacehat isis and boko haram has done.
There was a gang in New York called SMM (Sex, money and murder). Probably still exists, and few books are out there about them. If I could relate ISIS and boko haram to anything it would be be exactly this Gang mentality. The credit I will give to SMM is atleat they didn't hide behind religion, nor involved innocent people and children.

Perspective changer

I want everyone I know to read this, to know, to understand.

**insert anything you could say about life** :: Meanwhile in Nigeria...

On a performance note, wonderful voices for each character.

Hard But Necessary Read

This was a hard read because you feel so helpless but it is necessary because it is informative.

Reality

It’s important to learn about what is going on in different countries and the struggles and atrocities that others go through.