Boko Haram and the return of the Nigerian slave trade
Anthropologists and embedded journalists occasionally get access to
the oral traditions handed down from father to son about the ‘good old
days’in non Western cultures. In the case of Northern Nigeria it is
clear that the good old days were the precolonial days of Jihad and
slavery. Terrorists such as Shekau did not emerge “out of nowhere.” He
and his growing number of accomplices are a throwback to a time when he
and his group and its ethnic allies were the dominant power in the
region; the ‘tough’ ones, the slave traders, the ones who lived off
other people’s labour in the name of Jihad and Islam.
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