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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 husband - these are the things a girl dreams of in a Nigerian village. And with a government scholarship right around the corner, everyone can see these dreams aren't too far out of reach.
But the girl's 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 captors' radical beliefs and watch as her best friend slowly accepts everything she's been told.
Still, the girl defends her existence. As impossible as escape may seem, her life - her future - is hers to fight for.
Read Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree Audible Audio Edition Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani Viviana Mazza afterword Robin Miles HarperAudio Books
"not due to style but to content. Pieces together from real stories by the kidnapped victims, this work would make for a great book study and should spur anyone who has read it to some sort of action."
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Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree Audible Audio Edition Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani Viviana Mazza afterword Robin Miles HarperAudio Books Reviews :
Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree Audible Audio Edition Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani Viviana Mazza afterword Robin Miles HarperAudio Books Reviews
- A solid YA book that's more mature than most and makes you think. This is a great starting point for anyone interested in learning more about Nigeria and the rise of Boko Haram. It prompted me to spend several days doing additional research on Boko Haram, their victims, and what's being done to defeat them.
This fictionalized account is told in short, vignette-style chapters that make it a quick read despite the heavy subject matter. A possible downside to this format is that the reader might not feel intensely connected to the characters.
Overall though, this is a great book that made me more aware of Boko Haram, their supposed "purpose," and tactics they used to control the young girls and women they kidnapped, including starvation, abuse, jealousy and brainwashing. The afterward was also very informative. I was left contemplating the levels of human depravity, martyrdom, brainwashing, and survival. Finally, Robin Miles' narration is fantastic as always. Highly recommend! - not due to style but to content. Pieces together from real stories by the kidnapped victims, this work would make for a great book study and should spur anyone who has read it to some sort of action.
- This novel was such an emotional read. I wasn't aware that some of the things discussed happened to so many innocent people. I appreciate the fact that these authors chose to help tell this story and I enjoyed the format it was told in. If you haven't picked this book up yet give it a go...such an eye opener.
- I like the book, haven't finished reading it.
- I’m not a ‘reader’ it’s taking me a while to get into it
- Amazing book.
- I picked up this book because I didn't know much about Boko Haram and thought a narrative would be a good starting point. I definitely learned a lot and appreciated the extra information in the back on the history, the process of the book being made, and extra resources/ relief efforts. Felt like a teaching tool with a every-person type main character, but that's a stylistic choice. The way the book is broken up makes it easy to understand/ read (if the heavy subject matter doesn't make you pause).
- Buried Beneath the Baobab Treeby Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, and Viviana Mazza is a heartbreaking account of one girl daily life in her home in the Borno state of Nigeria in late 2013 early 2014, and how quickly her way of life is destroyed when she is kidnapped by Boko Haram. Based on interviews with survivors that took place in the two years post-kidnapping. is a Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani is a Nigerian writer and journalist. Viviana Mazza is an Italian journalist and this fiction story is all the more heartbreaking when one realizes that every moment of it is based on facts.
The book is written in brief one page or less stream of consciousness style scenes, similar to and vignettes or journal entries. The structure, narration of the story by an adolescent girl is very reminiscent of Scholastic's Dear America novels. The style makes it significantly easier to read as the story becomes heavier and more heartwrenching.
The first half of it novel details her daily life and worries as a 13-year-old girl, from puberty to nerves regarding the results of her scholarship. The desire and importance placed on education are often similar to Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions. The story discusses pertinent issues in the current equal access on the basis of gender debate, as the main character often struggles with attending school while menstruating, and skips school, even though she is objectively the brightest student in the class. But it also questions the effectiveness of current measures of development aid, as a “pink van†shows up early in the novel and delivers 4 pads to the girls. The pads are too expensive in their area to be an effective means of menstrual care in their area, so the reader is forced to grapple with the effectiveness of handout style programmatic interventions.
A short, well written, and timely story that I heavily recommend.
