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After a murderous kidnapping in Nigeria, I launched a campaign to put a stop to the abductions. Why did no one listen?

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is a PhD candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley and a member of the Renaissance and Early Modern Studies Designated Emphasis programme.