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The purpose of this site is to go beyond "awareness" and deliver information about the plight of the 200+ girls kidnapped from a boarding school in Chibok, Borno State, Nigeria. We hope to create a database of articles reporting the most recent and relevant information. We cant imagine what the girls are living through, what agony their parents and siblings are going through waiting for their return and how their hope must lessen everyday that goes by. Please help us to keep this conversation going and to keep their plight in the public eye to and do what we can to make the Nigerian government so uncomfortable, they'll have to act.
The Bring Back Our Girls movement was started by Obiageli Ezekwesili, former Federal Minister of Education of Nigeria and Vice President of the African division of World Bank at a rally in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. It spread to social media via the millions of Nigerians and Nigerian-Americans on twitter who were joined by social justice advocates all over the world.
A brief word on the Ramaa Mosely/Girls Rising controversy
An American woman named Ramaa Mosely appeared on CNN taking credit for having started the #BringBackOurGirls movement on twitter. This was a lie. She then modified her story to say that she brought the movement to the US, which was also a lie. It then came out that CNN, who took part in selling this story, had invested half a million dollars in a documentary by Girls Rising, Ms. Mosely's employer. Holly Gordon, founder of Girls Rising, stated in a stunning display of inhumane callousness that the kidnapping of the Chibok girls by the terrorist group Boko Haram provided "an important moment for us to promote our film" (Wall Street Journal). We will leave it up to the reader to connect the dots.
An American woman named Ramaa Mosely appeared on CNN taking credit for having started the #BringBackOurGirls movement on twitter. This was a lie. She then modified her story to say that she brought the movement to the US, which was also a lie. It then came out that CNN, who took part in selling this story, had invested half a million dollars in a documentary by Girls Rising, Ms. Mosely's employer. Holly Gordon, founder of Girls Rising, stated in a stunning display of inhumane callousness that the kidnapping of the Chibok girls by the terrorist group Boko Haram provided "an important moment for us to promote our film" (Wall Street Journal). We will leave it up to the reader to connect the dots.
The Bring Back Our Girls movement is a demand by Nigerians for good governance from our officials. It is our "Nigerian Spring", if you will. Not only must the government fulfill their duties as protectors of the nation and bring back our girls, they must also begin to take the matter of national security seriously and tackle all the issues that make it easy for a group of men to take up arms and terrorize a nation.
