Rationalising the appeal of the Boko Haram sect in Northern Nigeria before July 2009

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 345-359
Author(s):  
Ini Dele-Adedeji
Keyword(s):  
Northern Nigeria ◽  
Boko Haram

The Boko Haram Reader

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Cook
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Northern Nigeria ◽  
Boko Haram ◽  
Islamic Theology ◽  
Long Line ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
The World

Since it erupted onto the world stage in 2009, people have asked, what is Boko Haram, and what does it stand for? Is there a coherent vision or set of beliefs behind it? Despite the growing literature about the group, few if any attempts have been made to answer these questions, even though Boko Haram is but the latest in a long line of millenarian Muslim reform groups to emerge in Northern Nigeria over the last two centuries. The Boko Haram Reader offers an unprecedented collection of essential texts, documents, videos, audio, and nashids (martial hymns), translated into English from Hausa, Arabic and Kanuri, tracing the group's origins, history, and evolution. Its editors, two Nigerian scholars, reveal how Boko Haram's leaders manipulate Islamic theology for the legitimization, radicalization, indoctrination and dissemination of their ideas across West Africa. Mandatory reading for anyone wishing to grasp the underpinnings of Boko Haram's insurgency, particularly how the group strives to delegitimize its rivals and establish its beliefs as a dominant strand of Islamic thought in West Africa's religious marketplace.

Organized Crime–Terror Nexus: Interrogating the Linkage Between Banditry and Terrorism in Northern Nigeria

2022 ◽  
pp. 002190962110696
Author(s):  
Al Chukwuma Okoli ◽  
Chikodiri Nwangwu
Keyword(s):  
Organized Crime ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Northern Nigeria ◽  
Boko Haram

This paper examines the phenomenon of crime–terror nexus from the standpoint of the linkage between banditry and Boko Haram insurgency in Northern Nigeria. Using a descriptive analysis predicated on a combination of primary and secondary studies, the paper reveals that both groups have functionally adapted each other’s structures and strategies. While Boko Haram and its splinter groups have occasionally engaged in acts of banditry, there has been mutual co-option by both groups as the exigencies of their operations demand. Nigeria’s drive at mitigating the banditry-terrorism conundrum must proceed with a pragmatic understanding of the gamut and dynamics of their situational nexuses.

Boko Haram and Turmoil in Northern Nigeria

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aslam Khan ◽  
Ishaku Hamidu
Keyword(s):  
Northern Nigeria ◽  
Boko Haram

What Happened to the Chibok Girls?

Hawwa ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-165
Author(s):  
Daniel Jordan Smith
Keyword(s):  
Northern Nigeria ◽  
Boko Haram ◽  
International Attention ◽  
Global Discourse ◽  
Nigerian Government

The kidnapping of the Chibok girls by Boko Haram in northern Nigeria generated widespread national and international attention, but a year later that attention has faded and the girls’s fate remains unknown. This essay is an effort to analyze and explain what happened, both to the initial global and Nigerian outrage about the Chibok girls and with regard to Boko Haram more generally. I focus on four issues: 1) the initial outburst of attention after the girls’ abduction—both in Nigeria and globally—and its subsequent waning; 2) what we can learn from the intersecting narratives about gender and Islam that dominated global discourse after the abductions; 3) how to understand the politics around Boko Haram within Nigeria, and particularly the failure of the Nigerian government to rescue the girls or reign in the militant group; and 4) what events so far suggest might happen going forward.

scholarly journals The Negative Impact of Boko Haram Insurgency on Women and Children in Northern Nigeria: An Assessment

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-33
Author(s):  
Mustapha Alhaji Ali ◽  
Ummu Atiyah Ahmad Zakuan ◽  
Mohammad Zaki bin Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Negative Impact ◽  
Northern Region ◽  
Secondary Source ◽  
Northern Nigeria ◽  
Negative Events ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Boko Haram ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
The Government ◽  
Negative Impacts

This paper studies the negative impacts of Boko Haram insurgency on women and children in northern Nigeria. Indeed, Boko Haram has affected the lives of the general populace in northern Nigeria, precisely women and children, by turning the women to widows and children to orphans, the negative events of the sect groups have continually coursing a serious damage to the lives and properties of the peoples in the northern region. The researcher used the Secondary source in acquiring the appropriate data. The study found that this set of individuals and their negative activities have affected the lives and properties of women and children. It is noted that many women have turned to widows and children to orphans. In view of this, the paper recommends that the government should intervein to provide the affected women and children with some empowerment programmes. It should also provide a good shelter to those that lost their husbands and residents, the government, traditional rulers, and religious leaders should help in assisting the children by enrolling them to schools like their fellow counterparts. There is a need for special rehabilitation and trauma centers in the affected states, especially for women and children who have had terrible knowledge during the insurgency period.

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