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Author MacEachern, Scott, author.

Title Searching for Boko Haram : a history of violence in Central Africa / Scott MacEachern.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 233 pages) : illustrations
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- Deep time, modern consequences -- Frontiers : mountains and plains -- States, frontiers and enslavement -- Kalashnikovs, cell phones and motorcycles -- Placing Boko Haram -- Pasts, parallels and the future -- Reprise: timescales -- Reprise: states, people and violence -- Reprise: Boko Haram on the borders -- Songs of smugglers and bandits -- The future.
Summary This book provides much-needed historical context to the recent rise of Boko Haram, which has terrorised northeastern Nigeria through the last six years. It particularly examines the links between Boko Haram and borderland phenomena --especially slave-raiding, banditry, and smuggling--in this region during the last millennium.
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Subject Boko Haram.
Boko Haram.
Terrorist organizations -- Nigeria.
Terrorist organizations.
Nigeria.
Terrorism -- Religious aspects -- Islam -- Nigeria.
Terrorism -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
Insurgency -- Nigeria.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
Insurgency.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: MacEachern, Scott. Searching for Boko Haram. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018 9780190492526 (DLC) 2017049317
ISBN 9780190492533 (electronic book)
0190492538 (electronic book)
019049252X
9780190492526
9780190492540
0190492546
9780190492526 (hardcover alkaline paper)