Text : Fiona Zanetti
Nigeria is a difficult place, with mostly bad days since the terrorist group Boko Haram began its latest rampage with bombing on April 14 just outside Nigeria’s capital, Abuja. The group killed hundreds of people. Nigeria can sometimes seem like hell, even though that its darkest moment arrived when the group Boko Haram broke into a school in the remote town of Chibok and kidnapped nearly 300 young women in order to be used as sex slaves or sold in neignboring countries as wives as told by Abubakar Shekau, the leader of Boko Haram, when he said he would sell them for just £7.
But the world stood against this. Influencer such as Michelle Obama, Malala, Hilary Clinton, Anne Hathaway and hundreds posted pictures of themselves holding up signs which read ‘#BringBackOurGirls’ to draw attention to the need for the Nigerian army to step in and urging military intervention to recover the schoolgirls who had been kidnapped. #Bringbackourgirls went around the world in no time. PEOPLE NEEDED TO KNOW, and people all around the world made it happen.
