mostly Christian female, aged between 16 and 18, were kidnapped by the Boko Haram sect from the Government Secondary School in the town of Chibok
Nourry, in collaboration with 108 students of OAU and the family of the abducted girls, produced 108 clay-head sculptures of the missing girls. Inspired by ancient Nigerian Ife terracotta heads, the series, titled, Statues Also Breathe, tries to recreate the girls’ facial expressions and hair patterns.
Could this have been a sign of betrayal? She nodded her head silently in affirmation. On the night of April 14, 2014, when the students were abducted, there was no teacher around. No male student was equally around. The terrorists demanded to know where the boys were hiding but were told they were day students. They also needed matches! Later, they revealed they were monsters and warned them of the consequences of trying to escape.
The school had been closed for four weeks before the attack owing to deteriorating security conditions, however, students from multiple schools and villages were in attendance at the time of the raid, to take final exams in Physics. As wise as these little ones were, while being taken through the bush onward Sambisa forest, they left their scarf, shoes etc, to fall off the bus as a mark. They hoped some people or their parents would find them.
The ruling PDP and APC had exchanged angry criticisms over the kidnap. Each accused the other of using the captured girls as campaign tool, a pawn in the game of politics. APC accused the ruling party of unwillingness to acknowledge the security lapses that resulted in the abductions and playing politics with the fate of the girls.
These attacks intensified in February 2014, with 59 boys were killed in the Federal Government College. The Chibok abduction was the peak of Boko Haram’s attack on the Nigerian state. believes should not be educated, and use them as cooks or sex slaves. They had used the girls as negotiating pawns in prisoner exchanges, offering to release some girls in exchange for some of their captured commanders in jail.CONDITIONS in Sambisa Forest were harsh.
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