Boko Haram: Inside Nigeria's Unholy War Contributor(s): Smith, Mike (Author) |
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ISBN: 1784535532 ISBN-13: 9781784535537 Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company OUR PRICE: $18.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Terrorism - Social Science | Islamic Studies - History | Africa - West |
Dewey: 320.557 |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.3" W x 8.4" (0.60 lbs) 256 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - West Africa - Chronological Period - 21st Century |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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 they remain a mysterious almost unknowable organisation. Through exhaustive on-the-ground reporting, M.J. Smith takes readers inside the violence and provides the first in-depth account of the conflict. He traces Boko Haram from its beginnings as a small Islamist sect in Nigeria's remote northeast, led by a baby-faced but charismatic preacher, to its transformation into a hydra-headed monster, deploying suicide bombers and abducting innocent schoolgirls. Much of the book is told through the eyes of Nigerians who have found themselves caught between the violence of a shadowy group of insurgents, brutal security forces accused of horrifying abuses and an inept government led by an accidental president. 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 off insurgent bullets. |