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Once captives of Boko Haram, these students are finding new meaning in their lives in Pennsylvania

  • Written by Jacob Udo-Udo Jacob, Visiting International Scholar in International Studies & Political Science, Dickinson College
Chibok schoolgirls freed from Boko Haram captivity shown in Abuja, Nigeria in 2017.Olamikan Gbemiga/AP

Of all the challenges faced by people who’ve been displaced, perhaps none is more important than to find new meaning in their lives. And so it is with the four young women who are students in a college prep class that I teach at Dickinson...

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