Nigeria is home to up to 500 slaves , according to the BBC . John Sutter : Nigeria kidnappings are horrific worldwide problem . Sutter talks with slavery experts about what could happen to the kidnapping ##s . Education and stability also could help end slavery . `` Any time there 's conflict -- particularly when that 's accompanied by historic discrimination against women and sex violence and abuse -- it 's actually not uncommon that there would be this type of kidnapping , '' Karen Stauss , director of programs at Free the Slaves , a Washington-based advocacy group , told me . Nigerian man : ` ` We ca n't let this be the new normal ''
Nigeria is home to up to 500 slaves , according to the BBC . John Sutter : Nigeria kidnappings are horrific worldwide problem . Sutter talks with slavery experts about what could happen to the kidnapping ##s . Nigerian man : ` ` We ca n't let this be the new normal ''