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Boko Haram - Inside Nigeria's Unholy War (Paperback)
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Boko Haram - Inside Nigeria's Unholy War (Paperback)
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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 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. 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 against
the backdrop of an evolving extremist threat worldwide."
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