Boko Haram: Nigeria Current Event

Nate Joseph Dr. Leenerts ENGL 203 10 March 2024 Godspeed, George Takei What is worse than being looked down on by another person due to the ethnic background of a person? They called us enemies, by George Takei, shined a light on how America treated people of Japanese origin during the early 1940s. The memoir showed how Japanese Americans were forced into concentration camps, lost their property and or forced to sell it for a small amount of its original worth, and faced xenophobia. Suspicion is an online database that shows how cruel the United States government is, and how they show race prejudice to Japanese citizens who had nothing to do with the Pearl Harbor attack. To answer, what is worse than being looked down on by another person is

The Boko Haram sect in Nigeria has been a huge problem for the country in the past, and the threat is only growing. This group is considered responsible for a handful of government attacks, targets on the United Nations, and often churches who undermine the Islamic religion. Their actions have spawned from the idea that their country is controlled by “fake Muslims”, and aim to create an Islamic nation ruled with Sharia law.

They are wanted for their bodies, not their minds. When interviewed about her four weeks spent in captivity, Aisha Kachalla says that members of Boko Haram told her and the other 111 kidnapped Dapachi girls “not to go back to school” (Adebayo and Busari). The reasoning behind this is that education is a type of empowerment. By keeping women out of schools they are making them ineligible and unqualified to work, unable to support themselves, they are forcing them to become codependent and “less than”

Boko Haram are motivated by a Jihadist version of Islam and is believed to be believers of the one true interpretation of the (Brinkel & Ait-Hida, 2012, p. 16). Their ultimate goal to create a true Islamic state in Nigeria directly associated with Sharia law. (Chothia, 2015, p. 5). The group has maintained their secrecy and the authorities have yet to be captured by law enforcement. Boko Haram is seen to have many basic views including their religious motivations, political downfall, and their extreme actions taken on the people of Nigeria. Boko

Meanwhile, Ali refuses to talk about the day she was kidnapped, explaining that she cannot recall what happened at that time. However, she revealed that the Chibok girls were kept together for about a year after the abduction before some of them were “given” to Boko Haram members as

In Kathy Gilsinan’s With World Focused on Boko Haram, al-Shabaab Steps Up Offensive (http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/trend-lines/13841/with-world-focused-on-boko-haram-al-shabaab-steps-up-offensive), the topic of al-Shabaab’s legitimacy and terror is discussed. As Boko Haram (another terrorist organization in Africa) has begin inflicting fear through the abduction of schoolgirls and other acts of terror, al-Shabaab has began to take up arms. Its acts of violence are beginning to spread outside the borders of Somalia.

Boko Haram is not able to sustain its success by just its ideological interpretation. Therefore, the organization needs some source of money which comes from external sources. According to the International Business Times (2014), Boko Haram has received millions through ransoms from kidnapping. In addition, the group receives donations from external sympathizers from all around the globe (Caulderwood, para. 8). Boko Haram also has ties to Al-Qaeda as both organizations are known to have exchanged weapons, cash, and some soldiers (para. 9). According to the South African Journal of Military Studies (2012), Boko Haram also gains revenue through an extensive drug trafficking empire. Additionally main is gained by tapping into oil pipelines and

In the “Article captive girls in Nigeria” by Michelle Faud and Oyekanni Olalekan that normally on taken on this area, fear of leaving captivity because of the prejudice from the Christian home town that is keeping the girls from wanting to leave. I saw this on the news on the day of the kidnapping, it is so terrible that those girls were taken from their school just because of some religious extremist hating group. For instance, if my sister was in the situation as those girls I would be angry and scare for my sister’s safety. I saw girls that went through things like this, and these girls find it hard to come out of that fear or any emotion. This terrifying experience

Western women take a lot for granted. In many parts of the world, even in the 21st century, women are not allowed to dress freely, speak freely, drive, vote, own a business, even go to school. Those that violate the tenets of the society in which they live can be killed for their lack of obedience. Still, like Rosa Parks on that bus in Montgomery, Alabama, there are women who are willing to stand up for the rights they do not yet have but know they deserve.

On Apr. 14, 2014, Islamist militant group Boko Haram abducted 275 girls --- most of them Christians --- from their school in Chibok, Nigeria. While almost 50 girls were able to escape, 228 are still believed to be in the hands of the kidnappers, Christian Today reports.

International Relations is a field of politics that takes a look at the interactions that occur in between states in the international arena. Its aim is to explain why certain events have unfolded in certain ways, as a result of how states use their power relatively to each other. Mostly the interactions that International Relations tries to examine or explain, is the conflicts that arise as a result of differing interests that states have. To provide a base for analysis, this essay is going to use the central theory of realism to explain the civil war that occurred in Nigeria in between 1967 to 1970. This essay will seek to explain

KADUNA, Nigeria (AFP )— More than 30 people were killed when a bomb cut through a crowded group of people in Yola, Northeast of Nigeria on Tuesday, the Red Cross and the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) told AFP.

this word brought fear to anyone who did not fully believe in the Islamic state

Historically, kidnapping has shown to provide significant financial resources for perpetrators. Furthermore, unlike hostage taking, does not limit the perpetrators options, is generally not public, and compels the third party to act in their favor. This is a strategy often utilized, successfully, by Boko Haram. The U.S. has estimated that they have received nearly 1 million a year from ransoms (threat report). Kidnapping is not only used as a financial mechanism for Boko Haram, but rather a strategy to advance their goals in all areas. It has been over two years and most of the Chibok schoolgirls, kidnapped by Boko Haram, are still missing. Boko

In past three years, Boko Haram has carried out multiple attacks on several key areas in the Nigerian nation. The group began targeting military and civilian installations, resulting in a significant loss of lives. They have transformed into a religious terrorist group aimed at creating an Islamic state in Nigeria. The most infamous and audacious operation in recent history is the kidnapping of young Chibok women from a region in northeast Nigeria. The group’s goal is to institute Sharia, and they resort to extreme measures