Chibok girls who escaped Boko Haram defy militants by returning to school

Left to fend for themselves by the government, one Nigerian woman has fought to give the traumatised schoolgirls a second chance at education
The jihadis had warned they would shoot anyone trying to escape. But as the truck full of frightened schoolgirls sped deeper into Boko Haram territory, two sisters clasped hands and jumped off together into the night. Now, they held hands once again as they faced another terrifying prospect: returning to school.

Asabe and Ruth evaded the fate of 219 of their classmates in the north-eastern Nigerian village of Chibok who are still in captivity. The mass abduction last April propelled the sect into global infamy, as the missing students became an international symbol of Boko Haram’s escalating war against lay education. But, far from the limelight, 57 young women who escaped were left grasping to make sense of their new reality.