The search for security in Muslim Northern Nigeria.

From: Africa | Date: January 1, 2008| Author: Last, Murray | Copyright information

ABSTRACT

The article puts forwards the argument that there is a pervasive anxiety among Muslims over their security, both physical and spiritual, in today's northern Nigeria. It is an anxiety partly millenarian, partly political, that seeks to recreate a stronger sense of the 'core North' as dar al-Islam, with notionally 'closed' boundaries--just as it was in the pre-colonial Sokoto Caliphate. This has led first to the re-establishment, within twelve of Nigeria's 36 sta...

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