Chibok Kidnappings - Why It's Important To Listen To The Survivors Of Boko Haram Terrorism TC_Africa: Nigeria
that the excessive focus on the Chibok girls, to the detriment of other stories from children, men and women, was"a mistake". As she argues, it is only through a robust engagement with the tragedy of terrorism in northern Nigeria that we can learn how best to confront it meaningfully.Nwaubani strives to achieve this complexity in her acclaimed novel, Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree.
The novel also undoes the easy gender binary constructed by the #BringBackOurGirls campaigners. Boko Haram has also murdered boys and men while kidnapping girls and women. When Boko Haram invades her village and almost annihilates all men and boys, Yaa Taa mourns: I thank God that I am a girl ... it was the boys and men that got called to one side of the building when the Boko Haram men gathered all the villagers ... It was the boys who were lying in shallow puddles of red, while the girls and women and toddlers were marched into trucks.
Italian journalist Viviana Mazza's afterword in Nwaubani's novel supports Yaa Taa's experience. It mirrors what she heard from other witnesses she interviewed. The women also allude to the trauma of witnessing such gruesome murders and the challenge of survival in the absence of their fathers, husbands, brothers, teachers and community leaders in their patriarchal society. Yet this has been scarcely acknowledged. #BringBackOurGirls shows a need for a better understanding of the delicate situation in these communities.We find similar testimonies in other narratives published in the aftermath of the Chibok girls' kidnapping.
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