Bring Back Our Girls: The Untold Story of the Global Search for Nigeria's Missing Schoolgirls
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Author: Parkinson, Joe, Hinshaw, Drew
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ISBN: 9780062933928

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What happens after you click tweet. . . The heart-stopping and definitive account of the rescue mission to free hundreds...
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What happens after you click tweet. . . The heart-stopping and definitive account of the rescue mission to free hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls, and their heroic survival, after their 2014 kidnapping spurred a global social media campaign that prompted the intervention of seven militaries, showing us the blinding possibilities-for good and ill-of activism in our interconnected world. In the spring of 2014, American celebrities and their Twitter followers unwittingly helped turn a group of teenagers into a central prize in the global War on Terror by retweeting #BringBackOurGirls, a call for the release of 276 Nigerian schoolgirls who'd been kidnapped by the little-known Islamist sect Boko Haram. With just four words, their tweets launched an army of would-be liberators, spies, and glory hunters into an obscure conflict that few understood, in a remote part of Nigeria that had just barely begun to use the internet. When hostage talks and military intervention failed, the schoolgirls we

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