#BringBackOurGirls kept global attention on Nigeria’s stolen Chibok girls. It also gave some a brighter future

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#BringBackOurGirls kept global attention on Nigeria’s stolen Chibok girls. It also gave some a brighter future

The campaign that came to prominence when 276 schoolgirls were kidnapped from their classes in 2014 has had an impact beyond its first rallying cries It was a kidnapping that changed Nigeria’s image internationally. For many, the first inkling of what was going on in the country’s north-east was after April 2014, when 276 girls were snatched from a school in Chibok by the Islamist militia group Boko Haram. It came from social media postings from…