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Annotated Bibliography – Political
Sani Umar, M., & Ehrhardt, D. “Endgames The evolution of Boko Haram in comparative perspective.” (March 2020): 277-303.
The authors Umar and Ehrhardt identified that the Boko Haram kidnappings occurred for three prime reasons:
First, the Nigerian Government was in a politically withered nature that had no real power to formulate a coherent response to what was occurring. The political withered nature of the Nigerian Government was due to several decades of changes in government, either by a hostile takeover by military factions within the government but also by exterior governments influencing the most powerful faction that could cease power.
Second, the downfall of their political-religious successor had failed to maintain power and influence over the people. A country such as Nigeria found itself without a true religious figure that could captivate and connect with the people and so the people had nothing positive to focus their attention toward.
Finally, several warlords and countries desired to profit from the anticipated hostilities. As we all know, in life, there is also death, however; death is the most profitable and the easiest to achieve a political end with certain ways and means.
Nigeria is a true melting pot of over “270 ethnic groups that speak 370 languages, and half the population is Muslim. The terrorist group Boko Haram regarded their country of Nigeria as “non-believers and that a Jihad cleansing” of the people would purify their country.
Endgames paint a picture of a fractured country, a society on the brink of collapse, and the over-willingness of countries with arms manufacturers to provide cheap weapons to the fight. Ehrhardt is Associate Professor in International Development and has written articles extensively about the continent of Africa and individual countries’ development, sustainability, and anti-radicalism for the Journal of International Development and the Oxford Press. Sani Umar has a Ph.D. in History and Literature of Religion and teaches at Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Nigeria.
Article Link:
https://www-cambridge-org.aufric.idm.oclc.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/2157948E9FA304594731F790F1CACE12/9781787446595c10_p277-303_CBO.pdf/endgames-the-evolution-of-boko-haram-in-comparative-perspective.pdf
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