Nigeria: #b Ringbackourgirls - the Fight Must Go Beyond Chibok

25 May 2014
opinion

Growing up, Nigerian children would play games pretending to be robbers. The average child would create a makeshift gun with his index and middle finger, while clenching his fist and pointing it at his counterparts, and ask: 'Your money or your life?'

The game would always climax in a cheerful glee; the children knew that neither money, nor life would be lost. Times are different now, children, especially girls in many parts of northern Nigeria, have been forced to grow up too fast, too soon.

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