“Every time I hear of a taking, I think of the taken,” says Fung in her introduction, her own experience as a hostage stoking her outrage. “How people cope in conflict,” she told Monocle, has always interested her in a career of reporting stories in hostile environments. Photo by Jane McLeish-Kelseyįung is above all a fine journalist and compelling storyteller, revealing the kidnapped girls’ worlds to the reader through powerful dialogue and visual description, with her own kidnapping experience opening doors to life experiences which might not otherwise have been shared. Vancouver writer and UBC graduate Mellissa Fung. Fung’s focus is on three young women, Zara, Gambo, and Asma’u, as well as their families, their ordeals, and subsequent efforts to re-integrate into Nigerian society in the face of extreme social stigma. A victim of abduction and assault herself in Afghanistan where she was working as a CBC reporter in 2008, Fung wrote Under an Afghan Sky (HarperCollins, 2012) of that experience and with other authors like Louise Penny currently works to help women escape from the Taliban-ruled country.īetween Good and Evil: The Stolen Girls of Boko Haram empathetically reveals the experiences of girls abducted in northeastern Nigeria and taken into the Sambisa Forest by the jihadists. Between Good and Evil: The Stolen Girls of Boko HaramĬanadian Journalist Mellissa Fung has written an important book which amplifies her documentary Captive, the story of three Nigerian girls captured by Boko Haram (which translates as “Western education is forbidden”) in northeastern Nigeria.
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