Some escaped

"Anna" was a student at Chibok Boarding School in the Nigerian town of Chibok last April when Boko Haram arrived.  They took her and 275 other girls away to be coerced into Islam and into marriage (or female bondage).

But "Anna" and 57 others were blessed with the opportunity and courage to leap out of those trucks carting them away from their homes.  Now 21 of them are enrolled at American University of Nigeria due to a free offer to continue their education, in defiance of Boko Haram's claim that Western education is "sinful."

“I feel very excited to have a chance to be part of this university and to continue my education,” said Anna . . in an interview by telephone with The Sunday Telegraph last week. “I am studying science now and I hope to become a doctor after graduating."

"Indeed, had Anna remained in Chibok, she might be contemplating a very different future right now. For only last Thursday, Boko Haram militants attacked the town yet again, sending its residents fleeing into the bush once more . ."