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Journal Article
A Historical Materialist perspective to Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria
2022
Overview
The literature shows that there are six different perspectives on the rise of Boko Haram in Nigeria. While some authors ascribe the formation of Boko Haram to religion and religious identity, the second group cite widespread socio-economic and religious insecurities, driven by an ideology is rooted within a particular community due to both a historical narrative and modern grievances. However, other authors argue that the rise of Boko Haram is deeply rooted in political ideology, namely resentment of the shift of political power from the North to the South, exemplified by the Jonathan presidency. Thus,Boko Haram is seen as a child of political rascality. Another account seeks to establish a nexus between the Mohammed Marwa-led Maitatsine movement of the 1980s and Boko Haram, because of their shared objectives of purifying Islam. The former had latched on the economic hardship of the period, which was complicated by the deteriorating conditions of Nigerians brought on by structural adjustment policies with attendant riots, to wage war on the Nigerian state. The fifth group is the good governance school, while the sixth group is the conspiracy theory school. In light of the forgoing, making use of the historical method of discuss and analysis, this paper analyses the various discourses on Boko Haram and their concomitant failure in fully explaining its emergence. The paper posits that Karl Marx’s historical materialism and class struggle is a useful analytical toolfor making sense of the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria.
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