West Africa ….the new frontline

Recommendations for further understanding around the subject / theme:

Film:

Stacey Dooley Investigates Nigeria’s Female Suicide Bombers – BBC iPlayer film

Nigerian Soldiers in Final Battle with Boko Haram | Viable Tv

 

Explanation of the Nigerian Civil War – ‘The Biafran Story’ – NewAfrica You Tube

Photography:

Biafra – Don McCullin’s 1969 powerful albino boy image:

 

Image via @whiskey_alpha_romeo_ on Instagram

Audio:

Overcoming Boko Haram with Dr Kate Meagher – Podcast 79 mins

Listen to the public lecture celebrating the launch of Overcoming Boko Haram: Faith, Society & Islamic Radicalization in Northern Nigeria, a book edited by Abdul Raufu Mustapha and Kate Meagher. Recorded at The London School of Economics and Political Science on 11^th March 2020.

 

New Media:

Web based resource: https://sahel.liveuamap.com/

 

The war in the desert: Why the Sahara is terror’s new frontline

 

Made-up to look beautiful: Sent out to die

The young women sent into crowds to blow themselves up.