Bibliograph

A gift from darkness, how I escaped with my daughter from Boko Haram, Patience Ibrahim with Andrea C. Hoffmann ; translated by Shaun Whiteside

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A gift from darkness, how I escaped with my daughter from Boko Haram, Patience Ibrahim with Andrea C. Hoffmann ; translated by Shaun Whiteside

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

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maps

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A gift from darkness

Oclc number

985966588

Responsibility statement

Patience Ibrahim with Andrea C. Hoffmann ; translated by Shaun Whiteside

Sub title

how I escaped with my daughter from Boko Haram

Summary

"When Patience Ibrahim was nineteen, her first husband was murdered by Boko Haram. She fled to the safety of her village and remarried several months later. Having prayed for a child for years, Patience is overjoyed to discover she is pregnant. Soon after, Boko Haram soldiers are at her door. Violently abducted and forced to convert to Islam, she lives in constant terror of what her kidnappers will do. She is alone in the world and fears her life is over. For two months, Patience hides her pregnancy while facing the brutalities of her captors. By the sheer force of her determination to protect her baby, she and her child are able to survive. Now she has entrusted journalist Andrea C. Hoffmann with her story, a powerful first-person account of Boko Haram's atrocities in Nigeria and Cameroon"--Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Journey into the unknown -- Back to the beginning -- The omnipresent danger -- My second chance -- Getting things wrong -- Women as spoils of war -- Kidnapped -- Among butchers -- The demons of memory -- A friend in hell -- Short-lived happiness -- Gavva 1959-2004 -- Gavva 2015 -- Shattered dreams -- Reunion abroad -- Dying and living -- A bundle of hope -- Return flight, Patience stays

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