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Northeast Nigeria

Map by Daniel Levitt

It is a must for trials to come

But if we stand firm to the end

We will receive the crown

And be like the angels

Mama Agnes

Inflexibility

Partiality

Arrogance

Haste

Impotence

Ignorance

False Promises

The Seven Deadly Sins of Mediation

The following is a work of reporting, conducted over six years and on four continents with hundreds of individuals involved in the search for the Chibok schoolgirls, including twenty of the young women themselves. It is also informed by a firsthand document, a diary, recorded at considerable personal risk during captivity and smuggled into freedom, which has been lightly edited for clarity.

Contents

Title Page

Map of Northeast Nigeria

Dedication

Authors Note

List of Characters

Part I: Kidnapped

1. Gather Outside

2. The Day of the Test

3. The Perfume Seller

4. Kolo and Naomi

5. The Caretaker of an Orphan

6. @Oby

7. Timbuktu

8. #BringBackOurGirls

Part II: An Open-Air Prison

9. The Blogger and the Barrister

10. Thumb-Drive Deal

11. Malam Ahmeds Rules

12. The Mothers March

13. You Must Write One Too

14. Tree of Life

15. The Senators House

16. Maryam and Sadiya

17. These Girls Are Global Citizens

18. Christmas

Part III: A Global Conflict

19. The Foreign Fighters

20. Agents of Peace

21. The General

22. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego

23. Sisters

24. The Imam

25. The Escapade

26. The Deadline

27. The Windows Are Closed

Part IV: A Breakthrough

28. Im Not Going Anywhere

29. The Fire

30. Never Trust a Breakthrough

31. Meeting in Manhattan

32. Praise God

33. The One Youve Been Looking For

34. Now There Is Trust

35. Naomi and Kolo

Epilogue

Postscript

Acknowledgments

Glossary

Selected Bibliography

Notes

Index

Photo Section

About the Authors

Copyright

About the Publisher

SENIORS AT CHIBOK GOVERNMENT

SECONDARY SCHOOL FOR GIRLS

Naomi Adamu

Maryam Ali

Sadiya Ali

Saratu Ayuba

Hauwa Ishaya

Lydia John

Rebecca Mallum

Palmata Musa

Ladi Simon

Hannatu Stephen

PARENTS OF CHIBOK STUDENTS

Kolo AdamuNaomis mother

Rifkatu AyubaSaratu Ayubas mother

Mary IshayaHauwas mother

THE MEDIATORS

Tijani Ferobea Quranic scholar and friend of Zannahs

Pascal Holligera Swiss diplomat from the Human Security Division

Fulan Nasrullaha fundamentalistturnedterrorism analyst

Ahmad Salkidaa freelance journalist and prolific tweeter

Tahir Umaran elderly former disciple of Boko Haram leaders

Zannah Mustapha, the Barristera lawyer and orphanage director

NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT

Muhammadu Buhariformer general and president of Nigeria from 2015

Oby Ezekwesiliformer education minister, #BringBackOurGirls protest leader

Goodluck Jonathanpresident of Nigeria, 20102015

BOKO HARAM

Malam Abba, Qaida commander, and the Chibok girls abductor

Malam Ahmed, the Malamthe Chibok girls Islamic teacher and guardian

Ali Doctora Boko Haram physician

Aliyu, Emirul JeshShekaus chief military commander and executioner

Abubakar Shekau, the Imamleader of Boko Haram

Abu Walad, Rijala foot soldier and guard of the Chibok girls

Mohammad YusufThe Martyr, slain founder of Boko Haram

Tasiu, aka Abu ZinniraBoko Harams spokesman

US GOVERNMENT

John Kerrysecretary of state

Barack ObamaPOTUS

Michelle ObamaFLOTUS

John Podestasenior counselor to President Obama

BACKGROUND FIGURES

Mama Agnesa northern Nigerian gospel singer

Jack Dorsey, @Jackfounder and CEO of Twitter Inc.

Amina Rawaram, The last Diva of the Saharaa Maiduguri-based singer popular in the 1960s

Michelle Obama was upstairs in the White House residential quarters, watching the morning news report a story of suffering and social media and wondering whether to tweet. It was May 7, 2014, an overcast Wednesday in Washington, and all the major breakfast shows were leading with the same harrowing tale.

Thousands of miles away, in a remote Nigerian town called Chibok, 276 schoolgirls had been kidnapped from their dormitory on the night before their final exams. Theyd been dozing on bunk beds, studying notes, or reading the Bible by flashlight. They were high-school seniors, a few hours of test questions from graduating as some of the only educated young women in an impoverished region where most girls never learned to read.

Then a group of militants barged in, bundled them onto trucks, and sped into the forest. The students had become captives of a little-known terrorist group called Boko Haram, which filled its ranks by abducting children. The girls parents chased after them on motorbikes and on foot until the trail went cold. For weeks, few people seemed to notice. The schoolgirls looked set to be forgotten, new entries on a long list of stolen youth.

But this time, something mysterious aligned inside the algorithms that power the attention economy. A small band of Nigerian activists on Twitter coined a hashtag calling for the hostages immediate release. Through the unpredictable pinball mechanics of social media, it shot out from West Africa and into the celebrity-sphere boosted by Hollywood and hip-hop royalty, then captured the global imagination. People all over the world began tweeting the same clarion call: #BringBackOurGirls.

The network news channels found the story irresistible. Anchors choked up retelling a tragic sequence of events that seemed to connect the worlds richest and poorest people through the universal pain of parental loss. A class of teenagers had been studying toward a better life, chasing aspirations that made them not so different from ordinary Americans, whose own high schools knew the ever-present danger of adolescent gun violence.

Now these girls were trapped in a ghastly, faintly understood conflict far away, hostage to unambiguous evil. More than that, they needed your help. Here was a chance to take part in the crowdsourced liberation of more than two hundred innocent victims terrorized for their determination to learn.

Watching the news reports upstairs, the first lady felt the same wrench of empathy that millions of others would express online: Those could be my daughters. Michelle dialed her chief of staff. Tina Tchen, a Twitter skeptic, wasnt expecting the call. A lawyer by training, careful and attuned to unforeseen risks, she didnt have an account and wasnt sure that Twitter.com was a presidential-enough platform for the first lady. Once a tweet went live, you couldnt control what happened.

Michelle, too, harbored reservations about social media and how much she should put herself out there. She had never made a major statement on foreign affairs, let alone waded into a war. What if her tweeting about Boko Haram made the situation worse?

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