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Bring Back Our Girls by Joe Parkinson & Drew Hinshaw
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Bring Back Our Girls

The Untold Story of the Global Search for Nigeria’s Missing Schoolgirls

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Narrator Will Damron

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Length 11 hours 7 minutes
Language English
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What happens after you click Tweet? The heart-stopping definitive account of the mission to rescue hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls whose abduction ignited a global social media campaign and a dramatic worldwide intervention. 

In the spring of 2014, millions of Twitter users, including some of the world’s most famous people, unwittingly helped turn a group of 276 schoolgirls abducted by a little-known Islamist sect into a central prize in the global War on Terror by retweeting a call for their release: #BringBackOurGirls. With just four words, their tweets launched an army of would-be liberators. Soldiers and drones, spies, mercenaries, and glory hunters descended into an obscure conflict that few understood, in a remote part of Nigeria that had barely begun to use the internet. 

When hostage talks and military intervention failed, the schoolgirls were forced to take survival into their own hands. As their days in captivity dragged into years, the young women learned to withstand hunger, disease, and torment, and became witnesses and victims of unspeakable brutality. Many of the girls were Christians who refused to take the one path offered them—converting to their captors' fundamentalist creed. In secret, they sang hymns, and kept a diary, relying on their faith and friendships to stay alive.

Bring Back Our Girls unfolds across four continents, from the remote forests of northern Nigeria to the White House; from clandestine meetings in Khartoum safe houses to century-old luxury hotels on picturesque lakes in the Swiss Alps. A twenty-first century story that plumbs the promise and peril of an era whose politics are fueled by the power of hashtag advocacy, this urgent and engrossing work of investigative journalism reveals the unpredictable interconnectedness of our butterfly-wings world, where a few days of online activism can bring years of offline consequences for people continents away.

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Joe Parkinson is the Africa Bureau Chief for the Wall Street Journal and a Pulitzer Prize finalist currently based in Johannesburg. One of the Journal’s most seasoned foreign correspondents, he has reported from more than forty countries, and his work has won numerous inter national awards.  

Drew Hinshaw, a senior reporter for the Wall Street Journal, spent a decade covering West Africa, where his work was nominated several times for the Pulitzer Prize. He has also written for the New York Times MagazineTimeAl Jazeera, the Atlantic and Rolling Stone.

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Narrator:
Will Damron

ISBN:
9780062933959

Length:
11 hours 7 minutes

Language:
English

Publisher:
HarperAudio

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Edition:
Unabridged

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