thabo manoto and rennie alexander are both poets, and they visit the memorial often.they use their poetry to fight for social justice. >> i believe i have one skill. i have one talent that can change the world, and that is my words. i can take a picture such as this and translate it and put emotion in it and make people understand the emotional turmoil people are going through, but at the same time they had the courage to stand up for what they believe. so i think as a poet i am able to change the world with my words. >> their works encourage the people of south africa to stand up for their rights. >> i am walking towards a mountain called truth. it is crumbling and i am losing ground, but a prometheus heart beats inside me with the goal to never give up till i get light to the people of the setting sun. the clouds obscuring my vision. i have lost my way, but i left breadcrumbs for others to be able to perform a rendition of my life's' work. a fiction, a fairy tale, the dream of a child to find peace in the darkest abyss. >> i'm aiming to change people's mindsets. peo

one of the villages we spoke to described it almost like a shopping trip, thabo -- they took a huge risk because of that ever-present threat that the my about t -- militants would come back. they want more pressure, more information to get out there. they want more to be done to bring home those girls. >> and nima, the night of that kidnapping, do people -- are they expressing that there was any warning that this terrorist group was coming? >> reporter: there is definitely a real sense there that this could have been stopped. a lot of the people we spoke to said that they had received warning phone calls from villages along the route that that convoy came along. because when you think about it, seven lorrys, some pickup trucks, motorcycles to round up any girls that tried to escape, that is quite a large movement of cars and people. how could it not have been seen? that's really also what's adding to that trauma, that sense of . . hey. i'm ted and this is rudy. say "hi" rudy. [ barks ] [ chuckles ] i'd do anything to keep this guy happy and healthy. that's why i'm so excited about these