Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree
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Based on interviews with young women who were kidnapped by Boko Haram, this poignant novel by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani tells the timely story of one girl who was taken from her home in Nigeria and her harrowing fight for survival. Includes an afterword by award-winning journalist Viviana Mazza.
A new pair of shoes, a university degree, a husbandтАФthese are the things that a girl dreams of in a Nigerian village. And with a government scholarship right around the corner, everyone can see that these dreams arenтАЩt too far out of reach.
But the girlтАЩs dreams turn to nightmares when her village is attacked by Boko Haram, a terrorist group, in the middle of the night. Kidnapped, she is taken with other girls and women into the forest where she is forced to follow her captorsтАЩ radical beliefs and watch as her best friend slowly accepts everything sheтАЩs been told.
Still, the girl defends her existence. As impossible as escape may seem, her lifeтАФher futureтАФis hers to fight for.
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Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani is a Nigerian writer and journalist. The author of the award-winning novel I Do Not Come to You by Chance, Adaobi has had her writing featured in the New York Times, the Guardian, and the New Yorker. You can find her at www.adaobitricia.com.
Viviana Mazza is an Italian journalist who won the 2010 Marco Luchetta Journalist Prize, dedicated to raising awareness of the plight of children affected by war. She has also written The Story of Malala and The Baby Nelson Mandela, which were published in Italy.
