This article follows the stories of captured refugee women in Nigeria, Africa. The western region of Africa has been plagued by the militant group Boko Haram for the past seven years. Boko Haram has control of several Northeastern states and has declared its allegiance to the islamic extremist group ISIS and is the self-proclaimed ISIS province in West Africa. According to this article Boko Haram and ISIS accounted for more than half of all deaths related to terror incidents in 2014. Yohana, the protagonist of the article, shared her story as a captive of Boko Haram with Buzzfeed. According to Yohana, the use of female suicide bombers has spiked in recent years. The local Boko Haram leaders attempt to build the trust of their captives by promising to bring them anything they ask for.

According to Yohana there is discontent within the Boko Haram ranks because of a disorganized sense of ideology and a lack of resources. The lack of resources also results in random acts of violence on the neighborhoods that surround the encampment. The following quotation from the article demonstrates the horrifying circumstances that many women living in the vicinity of the Boko Haram encampments experience, "Some 50-odd remaining women and children were then banished to live in a single, stifling room. They were given Qur'ans and buckets--then left alone for hour on end. Many were frequently dragged outside to be raped, later returning to lie dead-eyed on the few dirty mattresses". Yohana is an anomaly in that she was eventually able to escape her captors many more women and men suffer through a fate that is unimaginable to us. 

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