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The World Was In Our Hands: Voices from the Boko Haram Conflict. Edited by Chitra Nagarajan. 400 pp. April 22, 2025, Cassava Republic Press. Non-fiction. So many stories of suffering in Africa (and most of the Global South) are told by others; so few by the people living them. Here’s a collection of testimonies collected by Chitra Nagarajan over five years, an oral history from people affected by the conflict with Boko Haram: forty-seven interviews in total, with “women, soldiers, farmers, and fishermen,” many displaced; some who were insiders, and many who experienced the violence directly, but others indirectly. https://hararereview.wordpress.com/2025/07/14/the-world-was-in-our-hands-voices-from-the-boko-haram-conflict-edited-by-chitra-nagarajan/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social