In 2014, the extremist organization Boko Haram kidnapped 276 teenage girls from a town in northeastern Nigeria. Waiting for Hassana is a harrowing first-person account of one girl’s escape from captivity and a heart-wrenching lament for her closest friend Hassana — one of the many girls still unaccounted for.
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Waiting for Hassana
11-minutes
The personal account of one girl’s harrowing escape from the imprisonment of Boko Haram.
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