The lives of the women, soldiers, famers and fishermen of the Boko Haram conflict, told in their own hand. Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Chitra Nagarajan is a journalist and writer who writes on climate change, conflict, feminism, foreign policy, migration, Nigeria and the wider Lake Chad region, race and sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression. She has written for The Guardian, New Humanist, New Internationalist, This is Africa and Ventures Africa and appeared on Sky News and the BBC World Service. She co-edited She Called Me Woman: Nigeria’s Queer Women Speak, a book of narratives published by Cassava Republic Press.
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Introduction 1. This is what has become of Maiduguri 2. Not the society we want 3. Let me leave now before they bring fight here 4. The world was in our hands 5. My whole life was their own 6. Still hungry to survive 7. I didn’t know what aikin Allah was but it sounded good 8. Run and leave it for the child 9. Because of climate change and because of conflict 10. Freedom for me 11. They prayed on me 12. We take care of each other 13. At least I have gotten my children 14. If not, I would have died 15. I believed we would change the world 16. We decided, it’s life or death for us 17. There is so much I do to avoid problems 18. My life here does not have any sense 19. We came to hate the whole society except them 20. It felt good to have this power 21. I have no freedom 22. Any country with this level of insecurity is no longer a country 23. Safely like before 24. So different from the world we knew 25. They were real elders - my future is with them 26. Having a mind of my own 27. We must stand up and fight for our rights 28. To keep away the hopelessness 29. Like the hameji of before 30. I don’t think we are Nigerian 31. I am like family to them and they will not abandon me 32. Determined to do all I could to protect them 33. The one who saved her daughter’s life 34. How lucky he is to have me as a wife 35. A job reserved for women 36. If they just stopped stigmatising 37. It was only for a moment I felt sad 38. It seems that everyone is engaged in doing evil 39. Nobody knows what happened to me in the bush 40. To focus instead on the bright future ahead of me 41. The bloodshed in this land 42. The last time I saw my daughter 43. What keeps women there 44. The Borno we knew 45. The way to regain peace 46. I never expected war to be like this 47. At least here, I have freedom Acknowledgements
Introduction 1. This is what has become of Maiduguri 2. Not the society we want 3. Let me leave now before they bring fight here 4. The world was in our hands 5. My whole life was their own 6. Still hungry to survive 7. I didn’t know what aikin Allah was but it sounded good 8. Run and leave it for the child 9. Because of climate change and because of conflict 10. Freedom for me 11. They prayed on me 12. We take care of each other 13. At least I have gotten my children 14. If not, I would have died 15. I believed we would change the world 16. We decided, it’s life or death for us 17. There is so much I do to avoid problems 18. My life here does not have any sense 19. We came to hate the whole society except them 20. It felt good to have this power 21. I have no freedom 22. Any country with this level of insecurity is no longer a country 23. Safely like before 24. So different from the world we knew 25. They were real elders - my future is with them 26. Having a mind of my own 27. We must stand up and fight for our rights 28. To keep away the hopelessness 29. Like the hameji of before 30. I don’t think we are Nigerian 31. I am like family to them and they will not abandon me 32. Determined to do all I could to protect them 33. The one who saved her daughter’s life 34. How lucky he is to have me as a wife 35. A job reserved for women 36. If they just stopped stigmatising 37. It was only for a moment I felt sad 38. It seems that everyone is engaged in doing evil 39. Nobody knows what happened to me in the bush 40. To focus instead on the bright future ahead of me 41. The bloodshed in this land 42. The last time I saw my daughter 43. What keeps women there 44. The Borno we knew 45. The way to regain peace 46. I never expected war to be like this 47. At least here, I have freedom Acknowledgements
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