- Publisher: I.B. Tauris
- Year: 2015
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 250pp
- Illustrated: No
- Dimensions: 220x145mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.4kg
- ISBN: 9781784530747
- Product code: 530127
Boko Haram
Inside Nigeria's Unholy War
Mike Smith New Hardback
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As a foreign correspondent for Agence France-Presse, Mike Smith was in Nigeria between 2010 and 2013, reporting on the Islamist insurgency. Drawing on his own first-hand experience, that of fellow journalists and academic works, he presents a full account of Boko Haram up to its kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls in 2014.
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An insurgency in Nigeria by the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram has left thousands dead, shaken Africa's biggest country and worried the world. Yet it remains a mysterious - almost unknowable - organisation. rough exhaustive on-the-ground reporting, Mike Smith takes readers inside the conflict and provides the first in-depth account of the violence and unrest. He traces Boko Haram from its beginnings as a small Islamist sect in Nigeria's remote north-east, led by a baby-faced but charismatic preacher, to its transformation into a hydra-headed entity, deploying suicide bombers and abducting schoolgirls. Much of the book is told through the eyes of Nigerians who have found themselves caught between frightening insurgents and security forces accused of horrifying brutality. It includes the voices of a forgotten police officer left paralysed by an attack, women whose husbands have been murdered and a sword-wielding vigilante using charms to fend of insurgent bullets. It journeys through the sleaze and corruption that has robbed Africa's biggest oil producer of its potential, making it such fertile ground for extremism.Along the way it questions whether there can be any end to the violence and the ways in which this might be achieved.
Interspersed with history, this book delves into the roots of this unholy war being waged by a virtually unknown organisation, which is set to shape the destiny of Africa's biggest economy and most populous state - and perhaps affect the future of Africa.
Interspersed with history, this book delves into the roots of this unholy war being waged by a virtually unknown organisation, which is set to shape the destiny of Africa's biggest economy and most populous state - and perhaps affect the future of Africa.
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As a foreign correspondent for Agence France-Presse, Mike Smith was in Nigeria between 2010 and 2013, reporting on the Islamist insurgency. Drawing on his own first-hand experience, that of fellow journalists and academic works, he presents a full account of Boko Haram up to its kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls in 2014.
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