Nigeria

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  

  Review Essay: The Bloody Business of the British Conquest of Nigeria

  by Adewale Maja-Pearce

  Self-serving stories of the civilizing mission of British Christianity paper over the brutality of colonialism. 

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• 5/3/2020
  

  The Untold Story of Boko Haram’s Origins

  by Jacob Zenn

  Researchers who view Boko Haram as a Nigerian unsurgency need to understand its history as part of pan-African Islamist networks; responses to extremism must work across national borders.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  1/15/20
  

  Nigeria Is Haunted by Its Civil War

  by Max Siollun

  The conflict’s legacy continues to hold the country captive, half a century later.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  10-25-18
  

  Major European Institutions Will ‘Loan’ Looted Artifacts to New Nigerian Museum

  During an 1897 raid, the British army plundered 4,000 artifacts from the kingdom of Benin.

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• 2-15-15
  

  Boko Haram Is Hardly a New Phenomenon in Nigeria

  by Moses Ochonu

  The surprise is it’s in formal rebellion against western education its members never received.

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• SOURCE: Not Even Past
  5-19-14
  

  What’s Happened to those Nigerian Schoolgirls Is Heartbreaking, but Should the United States Intervene?

  by Brian McNeil

  Even if we all agreed that in certain cases sovereignty should be violated for humanitarian relief, who makes that determination?

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• 5-12-14
  

  Why We're Only Now Paying Attention to Boko Haram Is a Disgrace

  by Timothy R. Furnish

  Nigeria’s position on the fault-line between Christian and Muslim civilization appears not just increasingly precarious, but dangerously unsustainable.

• SOURCE: WaPo
  1-24-13
  

  Family, friends honor Nigerians who fought in Burma during WWII

  LAGOS, Nigeria — At 16, Isaac Fadoyebo ran away from his home in southwest Nigeria and signed up to fight for Britain in World War II, a decision made from youthful exuberance that saw him sent to Burma to fight and nearly die.Courage and luck kept him alive behind enemy lines as local farmers protected him for months until the British broke through and found him. When he returned home to Nigeria, his story and those of his fellow veterans largely fell away from the public’s mind as independence swept through the country and a devastating civil war and political unrest later followed.Fadoyebo, who died in November at the age of 86, represents one of the last so-called “Burma Boys” in West and East Africa. On Thursday, his family and friends gathered for a final worship service and celebration of his life, as new attention has been paid to his sacrifices and those of other Africans drawn into the fighting....