This TED Talk features journalist Stephanie Bussari, recorded live at TED Talent Search, Lagos, 2017.

I want to tell you a story about a girl, but I can't tell you her real name.

So let's just call her Hadiza.

Hadiza is 20.

She's shy, but she has a beautiful smile that lights up her face.

But she's in constant pain, and she will likely be on medication for the rest of her life.

Do you want to know why?

Hadiza is a Chivok girl,

and on April 14, 2014, she was kidnapped by Boko Haram terrorists.

She managed to escape, though, by jumping off the truck that was carrying the girls.

But when she landed, she broke both her legs,

and she had to crawl on her tummy to hide in the bushes.

She told me she was terrified that Boko Haram would come back for her.

She was one of 57 girls who would escape by jumping off trucks that day. The story quite rightly caused ripples around the world. People

like Michelle Obama, Malana and others lent their voices in protest. And at about the same time,

I was living in London at the time. I was sent

from London to Abuja to cover the World Economic Forum that Nigeria was hosting for the first

time. But when we arrived, it was clear that there was only one story in town. We put the government

under pressure. We asked tough questions about what they were doing to bring these girls back.

Understandably, they weren't too happy with our line of questioning.

And let's just say we received our fair share of alternative facts.

Influential Nigerians were telling us at the time that we were naive, we didn't understand the political situation in Nigeria, but they also told us that the story of the Chivok girls was a hoax.

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