Presented as part of
The Chibok Girls: Our Story, the US Premiere of Renegade Theatre’s searing work of testimonial theater about the abduction of 276 girls from their school in the Nigerian town of Chibok by the Boko Haram in 2014, and the enduring reverberations of their story. Written and directed by Wole Oguntokun, The Chibok Girls: Our Story was presented in tandem with The Lab’s special guest, Nobel 
Prize winning playwright and author Wole Soyinka, who premiered excerpts from his brand new work A Humanist Ode for Chibok, Leah. This long-form epic poem pays tribute to 15 year-old Leah Sharibu, one of the 108 girls abducted in 2018 from Dapchi by the Islamic State for the West African Province (ISWAP), a splinter group of Boko Haram. Leah was the only one not returned after the Nigerian government paid an enormous ransom. She refused to renounce her faith and has been held captive since.
The Chibok Girls was be performed by:
Leelee Byoma
Tobi Igbenoba
Dolapo Kodaolu
Jennifer Osammor
Meg Otanwa
The Chibok Girls: Our Story is supported in part by John Manirakiza, Eucharia Mbachu, and Hyacinth Nwachukwu.
