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Author Smith, Mike, author

Title Boko Haram : inside Nigeria's unholy war / Mike Smith
Published London : I.B. Tauris, 2015

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Contents Cover -- Half title -- Title Page -- Copyright information -- Table of Contents -- Dedication -- List of Maps -- A Note on Sources and the �Boko Haram� Label -- A timeline of key events in northern Nigerian history and the Boko Haram insurgency -- Prologue: �I Think the Worst Has Happened� -- 1 �Then You Should Wait for the Outcome� -- 2 �His Preachings Were Things that People Could Identify With� -- 3 �I Will Not Tolerate a Brawl� -- 4 �That Is How Complex the Situation Is� -- 5 �I Don�t Know. They�re in the Bush�
6 �Our Girls Were Kidnapped and They Did Not Do Anything�Epilogue: �They Should Not Allow Me to Die in This Condition� -- Glossary -- Prologue -- �Then You Should Wait for the Outcome� -- �His Preachings Were Things that People Could Identify With� -- �I Will Not Tolerate a Brawl� -- �That Is How Complex the Situation Is� -- �I Don�t Know. They�re in the Bush� -- �Our Girls Were Kidnapped and They Did Not Do Anything� -- Epilogue -- Books -- Journals -- Miscellaneous
Summary 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 con° ict and provides the ÿ rst 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 abduct
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Subject Boko Haram.
SUBJECT Boko Haram. fast (OCoLC)fst01912021
Subject Terrorism -- Nigeria -- History -- 21st century
Islamic fundamentalism -- Nigeria -- History -- 21st century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
Terrorisme.
Islamisme.
Extrémisme.
Sécurité internationale.
Islamic fundamentalism.
Terrorism.
Nigeria.
Afrique.
Nigeria.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780857735775
0857735772