Is Nigeria still worth dying for? Is she worth risking one's life for today? In this riveting
personal account, The Girl Who Found
Water: Memoirs of a Corps Member, Chibuzor Mirian Azubuike both grapples with these questions as well as confronts her own fears and insecurities, as she embarks on the mandatory post-college national
service in a part of Nigeria that is not only alien to her but is also immersed
in violence.
Chibuzor dreamed
of serving in her choice southern states. But then she receives a rude awakening
after finding out that she is posted instead to the northeastern state of
Bauchi, where eleven of her predecessors had been gruesomely murdered just three months earlier following post-election violence. Crestfallen, devastated, and despondent, she vows
to manipulate herself out of her bleak situation. At last, she reluctantly embarks on a twelve-hour night bus
ride to Bauchi, with the determination to seek redeployment upon arrival. Instead,
she encounters a different “North,” a North that questions and alters her worldview,
transforming her into a change agent in the process.
