Nigeria’s Subversive Love Stories

Photos by Sunday Alabama Nestled among vegetables, plastic kettles and hand-dyed fabric in market stalls are the signs of a feminist revolution: Piles of poorly printed books by women that advocate forcefully against conservative Muslim traditions such as child marriage and quick divorce.

Nigerian Girls Kidnapped

Scores of protesters chanting “Bring Back Our Girls” marched Thursday, May 22, 2014,  to Nigeria’s presidential villa to demand more action to free nearly 300 schoolgirls abducted by Islamic militants, but President Goodluck Jonathan did not meet with them, leaving a proxy to deliver a lecture that further angered the demonstrators.