Credit: Rallying Cry, Apples and Snakes/Jerry Kiesewetter. All rights reserved.
On the 14 April 2014 the far-right Islamist group Boko Haram abducted 276 girls in the northern Nigerian village of Chibok; the nation was distraught. It was an event – similar to the assault on the town of Baga in that same year – which incensed the country and soon became a viral social media campaign. As Nigerians took to the streets, marched and rallied the government to do something about the atrocity, the online world called to #BringBackOurGirls.
