Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree

by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani

The Boko Haram men give off a feral scent, as if they had been born and bred in the wild. They smell like human beasts.

“I will kill anyone who tries to touch me,” Zainab says. “I will bite off his ears.”

Boko Haram has nothing to do with Islam.