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Since 2012, thousands of women and girls in northeastern Nigeria have been snatched from their regular lives by the terrorist group Boko Haram.
Not much is known about the number of people who have disappeared into captivity. Many have managed to break out of Boko Haram’s grip, through rescue by Nigerian government soldiers, or by fleeing on their own. Not much is known either about the number of people who have made it back.
But returning home usually doesn’t end their horror.
In this special project, Carleton University journalism graduate Halima Sogbesan recounts the experiences and struggles of Nigerian women who have returned from Boko Haram captivity.
Her multimedia project is entitled Finding home.
Some images from the project: A fraying straw mat takes the place of a door in Fatima’s house.
Rukayyah, a former Boko Haram captive, is now back in school. Her favourite subject is biology. She hopes to become a medical doctor in the near future.
Asabe now lives at a church-run camp for displaced people in Yola, in northeastern Nigeria. Boko Haram had captured her with her husband and six children. Her husband was killed in captivity.
Rukayyah was 15 years old when Boko Haram took her from her community, Izge, in Northeastern Nigeria. She was forced to marry one of the terrorists. Government soldiers found her in 2015, when they conducted a raid on the camp where she was kept.
Fatima’s house was built with rows of bamboo, and roofed with thatch and tarpaulin. This has been her home since she moved to a settlement for displaced people in Malkohi, northeastern Nigeria
Fatima and her children sleep on a horizontal arrangement of tree branches every night. A straw mat is the mattress that covers the sticks.
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The Citizen is proud to share this project, which was funded by the Diane King Stuemer Award. It is given to an outstanding Carleton journalism graduate student working on a Master’s research project or thesis to support the travel and research costs for a social, economic or political issue that requires exposure. Last year’s winning project can be read here.
The award was established by the King family in memory of Diane King Stuemer, a graduate of the Bachelor of Journalism program. Stuemer regularly reported from aboard the Northern Magic, the 42-ft. steel, twin-masted sailboat that carried her family on a four-year, 65,000-kilometre circumnavigation of the globe.
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Not much is known about the number of people who have disappeared into captivity. Many have managed to break out of Boko Haram’s grip, through rescue by Nigerian government soldiers, or by fleeing on their own. Not much is known either about the number of people who have made it back.
But returning home usually doesn’t end their horror.
In this special project, Carleton University journalism graduate Halima Sogbesan recounts the experiences and struggles of Nigerian women who have returned from Boko Haram captivity.
Her multimedia project is entitled Finding home.
Some images from the project: A fraying straw mat takes the place of a door in Fatima’s house.
Rukayyah, a former Boko Haram captive, is now back in school. Her favourite subject is biology. She hopes to become a medical doctor in the near future.
Asabe now lives at a church-run camp for displaced people in Yola, in northeastern Nigeria. Boko Haram had captured her with her husband and six children. Her husband was killed in captivity.
Rukayyah was 15 years old when Boko Haram took her from her community, Izge, in Northeastern Nigeria. She was forced to marry one of the terrorists. Government soldiers found her in 2015, when they conducted a raid on the camp where she was kept.
Fatima’s house was built with rows of bamboo, and roofed with thatch and tarpaulin. This has been her home since she moved to a settlement for displaced people in Malkohi, northeastern Nigeria
Fatima and her children sleep on a horizontal arrangement of tree branches every night. A straw mat is the mattress that covers the sticks.
•••
The Citizen is proud to share this project, which was funded by the Diane King Stuemer Award. It is given to an outstanding Carleton journalism graduate student working on a Master’s research project or thesis to support the travel and research costs for a social, economic or political issue that requires exposure. Last year’s winning project can be read here.
The award was established by the King family in memory of Diane King Stuemer, a graduate of the Bachelor of Journalism program. Stuemer regularly reported from aboard the Northern Magic, the 42-ft. steel, twin-masted sailboat that carried her family on a four-year, 65,000-kilometre circumnavigation of the globe.
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