![]() Taken by Taliban sympathizers in Afghanistan, Fung shared her experience in her number-one-bestselling book, Under an Afghan Sky: A Memoir of Captivity. Other girls have never been seen again.A former captive herself, Mellissa Fung has great empathy for the kidnapped girls. Most of these girls, still children themselves, were shunned by their former friends and family. Some of the captives escaped and returned to their villages, many with children in tow. ![]() Hundreds-possibly thousands-more girls had been taken against their will and forced to become child brides to soldiers and leaders of Boko Haram. When veteran journalist Mellissa Fung travelled to Nigeria, she discovered that the scope of the kidnappings had been vastly under-reported. Behind the Beautiful Forevers meets Under an Afghan Sky in this mesmerizing true story of the Nigerian girls taken captive by the terrorist group Boko HaramIn April 2014, the world awoke to the shocking news that the terrorist group Boko Haram had kidnapped nearly 300 school-aged girls and taken them deep into the forests of Nigeria. ![]()
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