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Title Banditry and "captive population syndrome" in northern Nigeria
Full text https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/42009/1/Banditry%20and%20%20captive%20population%20syndrome%20%20in%20northern%20Nigeria.pdf
Date 2024
Author(s) Okoli, Al Chukwuma; Aina, Folahanmi; Onuoha, Freedom C.
Abstract The banditry crisis in northern Nigeria has been associated with dire implications for human population and settlement. Scholarship on the subject area has largely failed to foreground the nexus between banditry and population dynamics in the context of threat-induced migration, displacement, and bond-settlement patterns. Although there are diverse media and policy-based insights pertaining to the impact of the banditry crisis on the settled population, the conditions of persons, households and communities displaced or subjected to various forms of captivity by the crisis have been almost entirely unexplored by way of organized research. Using a combination of primary and secondary data, this paper examines the population-in-captivity dimension of the banditry crisis in northern Nigeria. It posits that the banditry crisis has, among others, created a captive population(s) who are exposed to complex, mortal existential threats, and vulnerabilities in the context of Nigeria's burgeoning un(der)governed spaces and state fragility syndrome.
Language en
Publisher Taylor and Francis
Relation https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/42009/; https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17467586.2024.2356509; 10.1080/17467586.2024.2356509
Type of publication Journal Article; PeerReviewed
Format text
Rights cc_by_4
Identifier Okoli, Al Chukwuma, Aina, Folahanmi and Onuoha, Freedom C. (2024) 'Banditry and "captive population syndrome" in northern Nigeria.' Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict. pp. 1-17. (Forthcoming)
Repository London - SOAS, University of London
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