Ian Birrell

Every horror imaginable

Patience Ibrahim’s eyewitness account of the savagery of the Nigerian Islamists is one of the most shocking on record

issue 03 June 2017

  • A Gift from Darkness: How I Escaped with My Daughter from Boko Haram

    Patience Ibrahim and Andrea C. Hoffmann

    Little, Brown, pp. 275

  • The Chibok Girls

    Helon Habila

    Penguin, pp. 119

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