Rethinking Boko Haram
The Evolution of a Jihadist Group Since 2015
$113.90
- Paperback
430 pages
- Release Date
3 November 2026
Summary
Since the early 2000s, the Nigerian jihadist group Boko Haram has been the subject of thousands of works by journalists, intelligence and NGO officers, and academic writers. Yet due to recycled themes, stale narratives, and fragmented sources, knowledge about the movement’s origins, motivations, and continued transformation remains incomplete.
Rethinking Boko Haram provides much-needed updates to older understandings of Boko Haram’s religious, political, social, and economic …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780253076823 |
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| ISBN-10: | 025307682X |
| Author: | Michael O. Nwankpa, David Cook, Zacharias Pieri, Oliver O. Coates, Susan J. Dibal, Olivia Shoemaker, Justin Graham, Marc-Antoine De Perouse, Mark Amaliya Anyorikeya, Medinat Malefakis |
| Publisher: | Indiana University Press |
| Imprint: | Indiana University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 430 |
| Release Date: | 3 November 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 156mm x 235mm |
Critics Review
“There is no small amount of research on Boko Haram, but only in recent years, with time, trained researchers, and better data, has the fragmented and often redundant information become better organized and thus able to identify gaps and new directions… . Nwankpa, as well as the material overall, does a very fine job of explaining how the periodization of Boko Haram—identifying precursors, the 2002-2015 era, and the post-2015 period—usefully organizes the literature and the evolution of the group itself.“—A. Carl LeVan, American University
Michael O. Nwankpa
Michael O. Nwankpa is Founder and Director of the Centre for African Conflict and Development, an independent research center based in London, United Kingdom. He is author of Nigeria’s Fourth Republic, 1999–2021: A Militarized Democracy (2023) and editor with Abdulbasit Kassim of The Boko Haram Reader: From Nigerian Preachers to the Islamic State (2018). He is Research Associate in the African Centre for the Study of the United States and the Centre for Mediation in Africa within the Department of Political Sciences at the University of Pretoria, Associate Fellow at RUSI, and Fellow at the Center on Armed Groups.
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