Dionne Searcey wrote In Pursuit of Disobedient Women; A Memoir About Love, Rebellion and Family, Far Away. From 2015 to 2019 Dionne was a journalist for the New York Times stationed in Dakar, Senegal, in west Africa. She brought her husband and her three elementary school aged children. Coming from the suburbs of New York City, the family had a big adjustment to make. Dionne and her husband take turns being the major bread winner in the family and this was her turn. She learned to navigate the city and surrounding area. Her articles about the girls captured by the Boko Haram were newsworthy. Some of the girls were forced to become suicide bombers. She interviewed several who walked to town with the bombs strapped to their waist and tied in the back so they could not remove them without help. Some of the girls asked the Nigerian military for help and the bombs were removed without detonation. Sometimes the Nigerian military kept them for questioning leaving them to wonder who was worse, the Boko Haram or the Nigerian military. Dionne would come home from interviewing these brave women to her family who all ignored her as they played a new board game. This was a very interesting book to read.
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