I have a new work-in-progress ‘Nigeria: A Country, Its Origins,
Inconvenient Truths and Prosperous Future.’ It is the story of Nigeria and
I will be serving bits of it as I work through my blog richardmammah.blogspot.com as
well as on my facebook page.
Bellow is a sample:
‘Where did Boko Haram and its later-day
co-traveller, the Jama’atu Ansaril Muslimina fi Biladis Sudan (Vanguard for the
Protection of Muslims in Black Africa, or simply “Ansaru”) spring from?
The jihad of Shehu Uthman dan Fodio is said
to have largely side-stepped the Borno-Yobe areas that have since been confirmed
to be the operational and logistical hotbed of Boko Haram. Is this then a
catch-up moment for Islamists from the old Borno Emirate?
With the benefit of hindsight also, would
things have been somewhat different today had the Nigerian political and security
elite done much more to totally extinguish the fires of earlier conflicts like
the Maitatsine uprising and the Gideon Akaluka saga?
Beyond his own words, what exactly was
former Governor Sheriff Ahmed Sheriff’s association and involvement with Boko
Haram? Has that involvement now been
confirmed to have fully ended?
The journey continues...'
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