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