ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses findings relating to the forms of activism that occurred in this study's four focal countries—Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, and the United States, and include highlights from Canada, Germany, South Africa, and Tanzania to aid analysis of where or whether Bring Back Our Girls fits in taxonomies of transnational activism. The chapter begins by looking at the interactions and relationships between Bring Back Our Girls participants in each focal country before proceeding to discuss relationships between participants in these countries and Bring Back Our Girls’ base in Nigeria. It ends with a discussion of what forms of activism Bring Back Our Girls represents vis-à-vis existing typologies. The events discussed here are not an exhaustive repertoire of all the Bring Back Our Girls events that occurred in these countries. The diffuse nature of these events within and outside Nigeria meant that several groups mobilised independently, making some more visible and easier to trace than others, depending on how much publicity they got and their social media presence. Their visibility depended, at least in part, on the duration and scale of their activism, the profiles of the actors and networks involved, and their ability to draw news and social media attention.
