VOV 134: A Midwife in Captivity

Adisu Abba is a 45-year-old widow and the mother of five children. She comes from Dikwa, Borno State, in Nigeria’s North East. Long before violence disrupted her life, she had already begun learning the work that would define her role in her community. She had learned how to help women deliver their babies.

Adisu was taken into captivity by terrorists for three years, during which she delivered five babies.

In this episode of #VOV, she tells her story and what it means to work as a midwife while being held captive by the Boko Haram terror group.