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Title No retreat, no surrender: understanding the religious terrorism of Boko Haram in Nigeria
Full text http://hdl.handle.net/1885/10795; https://digitalcollections.anu.edu.au/retrieve/52384/Agbiboa_NoRetreat2013.pdf.jpg; https://digitalcollections.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/10795/1/Agbiboa_NoRetreat2013.pdf
Date 2013
Author(s) Agbiboa, Daniel Egiegba
Abstract Boko Haram, a radical Islamist group from northeastern Nigeria, has caused severe destruction in Nigeria since 2009. The threat posed by the extremist group has been described by the present Nigerian President as worse than that of Nigeria's civil war in the 1960s. A major drawback in the Boko Haram literature to date is that much effort has been spent to remedy the problem in lieu of understanding it. This paper attempts to bridge this important gap in existing literature by exploring the role of religion as a force of mobilisation as well as an identity marker in Nigeria, and showing how the practice and perception of religion are implicated in the ongoing terrorism of Boko Haram. In addition, the paper draws on the relative deprivation theory to understand why Boko Haram rebels and to argue that religion is not always a sufficient reason for explaining the onset of religious terrorism
Subject(s) Boko Haram; Nigeria; religious terrorism; identity; relative deprivation theory
Publisher Center for African Area Studies (CAAS), Kyoto University, Japan; http://www.africa.kyoto-u.ac.jp/
Type of publication Journal article; Published Version
Format 32 pages
Source African Study Monographs 35.3 (2013): 65-84; http://jambo.africa.kyoto-u.ac.jp/kiroku/asm_normal/abstracts/pdf/34-2/34-2-1.pdf
Rights Permission given to deposit the published version of the article after it is published - email, Chief Editor of journal, dated 26/06/13
Identifier 0285-1601
Repository Canberra - Australian National University
Added to C-A: 2013-11-22;11:09:37