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The Chibok Girls
[Paperback - 2017]
helon habila
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An urgent Penguin Special investigating the 2014 mass-kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls by the world's deadliest terrorists On 14th April 2014, 276 girls disappeared from a secondary school in northern Nigeria, kidnapped by the world's deadliest terror group. A tiny number have escaped back to their families but many remain missing. Reporting from inside the traumatised and blockaded community of Chibok, Helon Habila tracks down the survivors and the bereaved. Two years after the attack, he bears witness to their stories and to their grief. And moving from the personal to the political, he presents a comprehensive indictment of Boko Haram, tracing the circumstances of their ascent and the terrible fallout of their ongoing presence in Nigeria.

About the Author

Helon Habila was born in Nigeria in 1967. He studied literature at the University of Jos and taught at the Federal Polytechnic Bauchi, before moving to Lagos to work as a journalist. In Lagos he wrote his first novel,Waiting for an Angel, which won the Caine Prize in 2001.Waiting for an Angelhas been translated into many languages including Dutch, Italian, Swedish, and French.In 2002, he moved to England to become the African Writing Fellow at the University of East Anglia. After his fellowship he enrolled for a PhD in Creative Writing. His writing has won many prizes including the Commonwealth Writers Prize, 2003. In 2005-2006 he was the first Chinua Achebe Fellow at Bard College in New York. He is a contributing editor to theVirginia Quarterly Review, and in 2006 he co-edited the British Council's anthology,NW14: The Anthology of New Writing, Volume 14. His second novel,Measuring Time, was published in February 2007.He currently teaches Creative Writing at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, where he lives with his wife and children.

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