Drums Across Brooklyn: Vigil for Kidnapped Nigerian Schoolgirls

Photo: MK Metz. McBrooklyn.com

The drumming sound you might have heard across Downtown Brooklyn Sunday night was part of a candlelight vigil and drum circle for the roughly 300 kidnapped Nigerial schoolgirls.

The Borough Hall vigil was sponsored by Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and Applause Africa. A large number of religious leaders, elected officials and activists spoke of the outrageous abduction carried out by a group called Boko Haram, which doesn't believe girls should be educated.

BP Eric Adams said the maltreatment and enslavement of girls and women is not just a Nigerian problem, but a worldwide problem.

Dr. Mojúbàolú Olufúnké Okome, Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College (shown above) said, “We are heartbroken. Those girls have to be reunited with their families."

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