Professor Temitope B. Oriola has just published a must read book with Oxford University Press on the BringBackOurGirls movement, entitled Terrorism, Politics, and Human Rights Advocacy. Watch as Professor Oriola discusses the key findings of the book with Professor Bonny Ibhawoh and DiA’s very own Nic Cheeseman.
How did the #BBOG transform the Chibok kidnapping into an international cause and a social problem? What was the impact on the movement and those kidnapped? And what can this tell us about human rights advocacy and peace and security in Africa more broadly?
Temitipe Oriola is the Professor of criminology and sociology at the university of Alberta and currently Alexander von Humbolt Fellow at Leipzig University in Germany.
Bonny Ibhawoh is the Professor of Human Rights at McMaster University, and the United Nations independent expert on the right to development.
Nic Cheeseman is the Professor of Democracy at the University of Birmingham, and the director of the Centre for Elections, Democracy, Accountability and Representation (CEDAR).
Terrorism, Politics, and Human Rights Advocacy is out now in the Oxford Studies in African Politics and International Relations and you can buy it here.
The book:
- Presents over 170 interviews and focus group discussions including #BBOG activists and core members of the movement’s leadership, military generals, and soldiers engaged in the war against Boko Haram.
- Speaks to ‘lives matter’ advocacy and African women-led movements on human rights.
- Challenges reductionist portrayal of the #BBOG as a social media phenomenon.
