Good on Alicia Keys for doing good with the incredible fame that has come from her talents. This year I spent my son’s sixth birthday protesting outside the Nigerian consulate in New York. Not the most conventional way to spend your child’s special day, I agree, but it was also the six-month anniversary of the abduction of the Chibok girls by Boko Haram in Nigeria, and it didn’t seem right that this important story had fallen off the news. I am overwhelmed with sympathy for the parents – I don’t know what I would do or how I would be feeling if I were in their shoes. Eleven parents have since died and several are in hospital suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of this awful experience. As for the girls, according to Human Rights Watch, many kidnapped by Boko Haram have been beaten, raped, made to kill and subjected to other unspeakable atrocities. And as if Nigerians have not suffered enough, now comes news of a bomb in a school in Yobe in the north-east of the country, detonated during the school’s assembly and killing at least 47 people and injuring scores of others. Boko Haram is again the suspect. As a mother, this cruel bombing leaves me heartbroken about the pain the parents must be feeling. But as someone with a huge platform to reach people it makes me ask, how can I stand by and just watch that happen? theguardian/commentisfree/2014/nov/11/alicia-keys-tweeting-social-injustice-musicians
Posted on: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 20:05:14 +0000
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