Frontiers: Authority, Precarity and Insurgency at the Edge of the State

Two home-grown insurgencies  arose in Nigeria after the return to civilian rule in 1999: Boko Haram in the Muslim northeast, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) in the oil producing and Christian southeast. The two insurgencies arose, I argue, from frontier spaces in which th...

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Main Author: Michael J Watts
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université de Reims Champagne-Ardennes 2017-09-01
Series:L'Espace Politique
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/espacepolitique/4336