for years. There was no running water—all day men and women pushed carts filled with yellow jerry cans through the narrow labyrinths between the mud houses, carrying water from wells. A Union Bank branch was closed, like most other services, and the building itself was crumbling.
Chibok is perhaps the poorest and most neglected of all the twenty-seven local government areas in Borno State. The 2006 census placed the population at around 66,000. Most of the people were farmers and hunters, although many younger men and women occupied mid-level positions in teaching, the military, and the civil service. The Chibok people call themselves the Kibaku, which is also the name of the language they speak. The various clans and groups making up the Kibaku had been driven to the Chibok hills by Fulani jihadists and slave raiders in the nineteenth century, and they have remained here ever since. Chibok is predominantly Christian in a predominantly Muslim state—the Chibok local government chairman is the only Christian among the twenty-seven local government chairmen in Borno State. It is a sleepy, dusty town where nothing ever seems to happen, and it would have continued its peaceful and obscure existence but for the event of April 14, 2014.
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