How Did The Boko Haram Revolt?
Introduction
As international focus on the Boko Haram uprising within the North part of Nigeria and its bordering nations persist, the Shehu of Borno, Alhaji Abubakar Umar Garbai El-Kanemi, declared that, it had been incorrect to trace the roots of the Boko Haram revolt to Borno State, insisting that revolt was “imported into this state” from one of the four close states within the North East sub-region of the country (Guardian, Friday, March 20, 2015). However, before formation and resulting annexation into the British Empire, the Bornu Empire dominated the territory wherever Boko Haram is presently active. It had been a sovereign state ruled in line with the principles of the Constitution of Medina, with a majority of Kanuri Muslim population. …show more content…
The Bornu state of the Kanuri is distinct from the Sokoto Caliphate of the Hausa/Fulani established in 1802 by the military conquest of Usmandan Fodio. Each of the Bornu state and Sokoto Caliphate came under the British Empire in 1903. However, thanks to the activities of early Christian missionaries UN agency used Western education as a tool for preaching, the latter was viewed with suspicion by the native population. Thus, with accrued discontentment amongst the folks, several fundamentalists’ activities surfaced amongst the Kanuri and natives of northeast Nigeria. One in all the foremost noted of such fundamentalists’ movement was that of Muhammad Marwa, additionally referred to as Maitatsine. The 70s and 80s was the height of his infamy and later on, thus he was sent into exile by the Nigerian authorities who refused to believe that Muhammad was a Prophet and instigated riots within the country that resulted within the deaths of thousands of individuals. Some of the analysts believe Boko Haram as an extension of the …show more content…
Boko Haram attacks in Borno destroyed twenty one faculties and twenty in Yobe. Media reports and interviews by Human Rights Watch counsel that millions of students, the majority boys, are killed throughout attacks on institutes. During a significantly vicious attack in Feb 2014, Boko Haram killed up to fifty nine male students from the centralized school, BuniYadi, in Yobe state, whereas female students were ordered to either get married or to attend Quranic classes. In the month of July 2013 an identical attack on a government-owned private school in Mamudo, Yobe State, left forty three students and academics dead, and later that september, Boko Haram reportedly killed another fifty in an agricultural school in Gujba, Yobe State, whereas they slept in their dormitories.
On June 16, 2014, UN agency warned that attacks on schools and the abduction cases of schoolgirls may undermine access to education in areas of Nigeria, particularly within the North, that is home to almost half-dozen.3 million, or sixty percent of the country’s 10.5 million youngsters. The government claimed that the abduction of schoolgirls had hindered the country’s efforts to push girls’ education and shut the gender gap in education, that includes a gross enrollment rate for boys at 35.4 percent more than that of
As international focus on the Boko Haram uprising within the North part of Nigeria and its bordering nations persist, the Shehu of Borno, Alhaji Abubakar Umar Garbai El-Kanemi, declared that, it had been incorrect to trace the roots of the Boko Haram revolt to Borno State, insisting that revolt was “imported into this state” from one of the four close states within the North East sub-region of the country (Guardian, Friday, March 20, 2015). However, before formation and resulting annexation into the British Empire, the Bornu Empire dominated the territory wherever Boko Haram is presently active. It had been a sovereign state ruled in line with the principles of the Constitution of Medina, with a majority of Kanuri Muslim population. …show more content…
The Bornu state of the Kanuri is distinct from the Sokoto Caliphate of the Hausa/Fulani established in 1802 by the military conquest of Usmandan Fodio. Each of the Bornu state and Sokoto Caliphate came under the British Empire in 1903. However, thanks to the activities of early Christian missionaries UN agency used Western education as a tool for preaching, the latter was viewed with suspicion by the native population. Thus, with accrued discontentment amongst the folks, several fundamentalists’ activities surfaced amongst the Kanuri and natives of northeast Nigeria. One in all the foremost noted of such fundamentalists’ movement was that of Muhammad Marwa, additionally referred to as Maitatsine. The 70s and 80s was the height of his infamy and later on, thus he was sent into exile by the Nigerian authorities who refused to believe that Muhammad was a Prophet and instigated riots within the country that resulted within the deaths of thousands of individuals. Some of the analysts believe Boko Haram as an extension of the …show more content…
Boko Haram attacks in Borno destroyed twenty one faculties and twenty in Yobe. Media reports and interviews by Human Rights Watch counsel that millions of students, the majority boys, are killed throughout attacks on institutes. During a significantly vicious attack in Feb 2014, Boko Haram killed up to fifty nine male students from the centralized school, BuniYadi, in Yobe state, whereas female students were ordered to either get married or to attend Quranic classes. In the month of July 2013 an identical attack on a government-owned private school in Mamudo, Yobe State, left forty three students and academics dead, and later that september, Boko Haram reportedly killed another fifty in an agricultural school in Gujba, Yobe State, whereas they slept in their dormitories.
On June 16, 2014, UN agency warned that attacks on schools and the abduction cases of schoolgirls may undermine access to education in areas of Nigeria, particularly within the North, that is home to almost half-dozen.3 million, or sixty percent of the country’s 10.5 million youngsters. The government claimed that the abduction of schoolgirls had hindered the country’s efforts to push girls’ education and shut the gender gap in education, that includes a gross enrollment rate for boys at 35.4 percent more than that of