There is a book, Women and the War on Boko Haram: Wives, Weapons, Witnesses, by researcher and writer Hilary Matfess. The Nigerian terror group, Boko Haram, was on the rampage then, visiting mayhem on the border areas and seeking to control the Lake Chad basin. And there were #BringBackOurGirls campaigns around the world, demanding the return of the 276 female students kidnapped by Boko Haram in April 2014 from Government Secondary School in Chibok, in Nigeria’s Borno State. There were reports that some of the girls were reluctant to return and had fallen in love with Boko Haram. Could Boko Haram have advanced as far as it did only through terror?

Source: Daily Nation May 16, 2019 04:07 UTC