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Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree

by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani

Ages: 14+

Published: 2018

Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books/HarperCollins

ISBN: 978-0-06-269672-4

Keywords: Religious Discrimination, Nigeria, Diversity, Terrorism

When Boko Haram attacks her Nigerian village, an unnamed narrator is kidnapped with the other girls and women, forced to convert to Islam and marry. Powerful afterword.