Joe Parkinson
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 409 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A definitive account of the rescue mission to free hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls after their kidnapping by Boko Haram describes how a global social media campaign initiated with the Twitter hashtag #BringBackOurGirls prompted a dramatic worldwide intervention.
In the spring of 2014, millions of Twitter users, including some of the worlds most famous people, unwittingly helped turn a group of 276 schoolgirls abducted by a little-known Islamist...