Nigerian interfaith couple perseveres in the city where Boko Haram began
Aisha and Vincent Anibueze, a Muslim and a Christian, have found ways to thrive despite violence in Maiduguri.
Aisha and Vincent Anibueze. Ryan Lenora Brown/The Christian Science Monitor.
(The Christian Science Monitor) On the dusty floor of his tiny pharmacy, Vincent Anibueze was waiting to die.
Outside, gunshots came like bursts of static from an untuned radio. He heard screams and heavy footsteps. “Gashinan!” someone yelled. There he is.
Vincent lay face down where he had dived to the ground when the first shots rang out. Inches away, a man was slumped across the consultation table. Not long ago, that same man had walked brightly into the shop, gripping the hand of his young son, asking about this and that treatment.
