Boko Haram

For many observers, the predation of Boko Haram, unsparing and venal in its manifestation, is shocking, and it seems to lack a local historical frame of reference that would help make it understandable. For others, Boko Haram's self-declared jihad resonates within along, local, contestedhistorical memory ofreligious militancy. This book makes sense of these two seemingly contradictory perceptions....