A Gift from Darkness - How I escaped with my Daughter from Boko Haram

I received an Advance Reader Copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. From the publisher -

The inspirational story of a pregnant young Nigerian woman and the horrors she endured to save her unborn child when she was kidnapped by Boko Haram. When she was nineteen, Patience Ibrahim's first husband was murdered by Boko Haram. She fled to the safety of her village and remarried several months later. Having prayed for a child for years, Patience is overjoyed when she discovers she is pregnant. But her joy is short-lived: Boko Haram soldiers are at her door. Brutally abducted and forced to convert to Islam, she lives in constant terror of what her kidnappers have in store for her. She finds herself alone in the world and fears her life is over. For two months, Patience hides her pregnancy while facing the brutalities meted out by Boko Haram. By the sheer force of her determination to protect her baby, she and her child are able to survive. Now, she has entrusted journalist Andrea C. Hoffmann with her story, a powerful first-person account of Boko Haram's atrocities in Nigeria and Cameroon. One of the first testimonies on the terrorist group's war crimes in Western Africa, A Gift from Darkness poignantly shows the human toll of a crisis that demands attention.

One of the things I like about non-fiction is finding stories that are hard to stomach realities and learning from them. This is NOT an easy book to read and what Ms. Ibrahim went through was brutal and beyond horrible. Losing her first husband and then potentially losing her unborn child made Patience a WARRIOR in my opinion! I cannot even imagine surviving what she went through and the whole world should know her story. In my opinion, terrorism on any level is a sign of one's weakness on behalf of the perpetrator --- they cannot think of something smart or sane to do so they go all out and do evil, ridiculous things. Pity that these men ran into Patience as she was not putting up with their .... ummmm .... stuff. This book should be part of every modern history curriculum as it shows that sometimes the terrorists not only don't win but they fail completely!