... violence from male aggressors. Yet through its reliance on certain restrictions, gendered and otherwise, the portrait of the vulnerable girl that campaigners outline inadvertently prompts disidentifications as well. The image that drew the world’s attention to Chibok differed in several key ways. In the...

... (SBM Intelligence 2017 ). On the night of April 14, 2014, 276 schoolgirls from the Federal Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok were abducted en masse, over a period of four hours, by Boko Haram members dressed in military fatigues. The students were due to sit their final year exam. The...

... first major conference in September 2016, the fate of the Chibok girls, abducted by Boko Haram in April 2014, was largely unknown. The hashtag #BringBackOurGirls, or #BBOG, was a powerful call to action, but it was not the first time that outsiders had taken an interest in the fate of Nigeria’s most...