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“Eat the Heart of the Infidel”: The Harrowing of Nigeria and the Rise of Boko Haram

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Boko Haram’s appetite for violence and kidnapping women has thrust them to the top of the global news agenda. In a couple of years they all but severed parts of Nigeria-Africa’s most populous state and largest economy-from the hands of the government. When Boko Haram speaks, the world sees a grimacing ranting demagogue who taunts viewers claiming he’s going to ‘eat the heart of the infidels’ and calling on Nigerians to reject their corrupt democracy and return to a ‘pure’ type of Islam. Thousands have been slaughtered of their campaign of purification which has evolved through a five-year bloody civil war. Civilians are trapped between the militants and the military and feel preyed upon by both.

Boko Haram did not emerge fully formed. In Northern Nigeria, which has witnessed many caliphates prior to now, radical ideas flourish and odd sects are common. For decades, Nigeria’s politicians and oligarchs fed at the resources of a state buoyed by oil and turned public institutions into spoons for the pot. When the going was once good it did not matter. But now a new ravenous force threatens Nigeria.

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