The Daughters Of Chibok

The Daughters of Chibok is a collection of interviews and photographs with the families and communities of the girls who were abducted by Boko Haram in 2014. It is a tribute to the girls which aims to capture their lives before the abduction and to highlight how their families have struggled to cope afterward. For the families of the girls, and for the Chibok community, the trauma of this experience remains a daily reality.

Aisha Muhammed-Oyebode is an entrepreneur, philanthropist and human rights activist. Born into a distinguished Northern Nigeria family of male scholars, Oyebode is the first girl in the family not to be married at 13. She is the founder and CEO of Nigeria's Murtala Muhammed Foundation (MMF), a non-governmental organization that promotes good governance and socio-economic change on the African continent through education and capacity building. The MMF is one of the organizations driving the reconstruction of the northeast of Nigeria devastated by the Boko Haram insurgency. The MMF also has an ongoing discussion with the Nigerian government regarding taking over the care of the captured female suicide bombers in the military's custody and the rescued Chibok girls. Oyebode is a co-convener of the Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) activist group and drives the group's activities in Lagos, southwest Nigeria. She is also a member of the Women's Leadership Board of the Harvard Kennedy School, Women and Public Policy Program.

Akintunde Akinleye is the first Nigerian Photographer to have been awarded a prize in the prestigious World Press Photo, Netherlands in 2007 with an iconic photograph of a man rinsing soot from his face at the scene of an oil pipeline explosion in Lagos, December 2006. An award fellow of the National Geographic Society and resident fellow of the Thami Mnyele Art foundation in Amsterdam, Akintunde was nominated for Prix Pictet photography award on sustainability for his work- Delta, A vanishing wetland. He lives in Lagos and works for Reuters in Nigeria.

Author Residence- Nigeria

Author Hometown- Nigeria

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