RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - boko haram again

This present conflict reminds me of the 19th century rift between the Hausa - Fulani supporters of Usman dan Fodio and the Kanuri
leadership that challenged their authority. Al-Kanemi comes to mind. There is an ethnic and religious divide within the northeast.
It may also be a turf war between fundamentalist Islam on the Niger/ Nigerian borders and beyond, and the expanding evangelical
Christian recruits in the area, some of whom are Kanuri. Add to this the fact that unemployed youth and the dispossessed are easy to recruit.
We have here an intersection of ethnicity, class and religion, compounded by fratricidal conflict within Islam and a political elite
preoccupied with the capture of state power for the purpose of surplus appropriation.

I maybe wrong on this and certainly look forward to additional insights from the experts.

True. Misappropriation of funds for defence is surely an issue vis a vis the poor performance of the military,
as Ikhide points out.


Prof. Gloria Emeagwali
History Department
CCSU
www.africahistory.net
www.ccsu.edu/afstudy/archive.html
(Africa Update)


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thanks gloria. i can't help wonder why it seems so little is known about
bh's resources. and i can't help but wonder what sets them off so much
from other muslims up north to the point where they are actually enemies.
k

On 1/10/15 3:00 PM, Emeagwali, Gloria (History) wrote:
> Ken,
> Don't be surprised to hear that the Gulf States, especially Qatar may be giving them some funds.
> Since ISIS is recruiting BH, according to some reports, who knows if money flows to their coffers, from ISIS -
> the richest terrorist group in the world, in decades. Even so it is surprising that the Nigerian army is putting out such a poor
> response.
> G
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> Sent: Friday, January 09, 2015 11:47 PM
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> Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - boko haram again
>
> why did BH attack baga? i assume its residents were resistant to BH? the
> terrible slaughter reminds me of the charles taylor tactics in sierra
> leone and liberia, intended to terrify people in the region, without
> having to use bullets to do it. but the nytimes report tells me nothing
> at all why baga, and why BH seems to have more and better weapons than
> the nigerian army, after all this talk about needing to bolster the
> army. does anyone have anything more substantial to help us understand it?
> ken
>
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