Rebecca: Yes, they say if you didn’t convert to Islam you wouldn’t get home alive. That’s what they say.<\/p>\n
Here are some of the girls two years ago right after they were released, alive but looking like concentration camp survivors, haunted and numb. This is Rebecca, skin and bones.<\/p>\n
Lesley Stahl: I heard you were eating grass.<\/p>\n
Rebecca: Yeah. Some of us eat that. And we are just be patient and live like that. No food. No anything.<\/p>\n
Look at them today, in their 20s. They’re healthy and full of spirit at a school created just for them, paid for by the Nigerian government and some donors, where they are making up for lost time.<\/p>\n
They’re from Northern Nigeria, where life can be hard and opportunities for women are limited. Now, in their Wi-Fi-equipped dorms, they have smart phones, and lap tops and their own beds.<\/p>\n
They go back to Chibok to see their parents twice a year; over Christmas and during the summer.<\/p>\n
Read it all<\/a> (video highly recommended).<\/p>\n While in captivity, the Chibok girls, many of whom were Christian, were pressured to convert to Islam. They were also deprived of food. Some ate grass to survive. https:\/\/t.co\/sUqbWBg7cA<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) February 18, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n