Olumuyiwa Temitope Faluyi, Sultan Khan, Adeoye O. Akinola (2019): Boko Haram’s Terrorism and the Nigerian State Federalism, Politics and Policies . Cham: Springer. 157 pgs. ISBN: 978 3 030 05736 7

Abstract

Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa, and one of the key economies of the continent.
However, it is a country known for almost chronic state instability, military coups in the first decades of its
independent existence, as well as recurrent security issues including terrorism, kidnapping, large-scale
corruption, armed crimes, and so on. The Boko Haram movement has been a subject of multiple studies out
of which articles and books were published. The current book written by a group of experienced scholars,
Olumuyiwa Temitope Faluyi, Sultan Khan, and Adeoye O. Akinola is a significant contribution to the study
of this very complex movement and socio-political and economic environment in Northern Nigeria.
Obviously, this is not the first monograph published on Boko Haram and the international book market
knows quite a few pieces dealing with a similar topic from many different angles MacEachern,
2018 Thurston, 2019 Zenn, 2020)