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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, Mike 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 fo

Who reads Boko Haram : Inside Nigeria's Unholy War?

Author

Mike Smith [Smith, Mike]

Publisher

I. B. Tauris

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781784530747

Category

history

Subjects

Political Science, Fiction, Islam

Rating

3.49 / 5 (78 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14