Has this house fallen? Fragile nationhood and the Fulani herdsmen’s genocide in Nigerian poetry

The paper evaluates the prevailing anxieties gnawing at the Nigeria nation-state, deriving from the Fulani herdsmen’s genocidal campaign. These anxieties are painstakingly reflected in insecurity, chaos, violence, banditry, and uncertainty that have built up in recent times to complicate the Nigeria...

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Published in:	Cogent Arts & Humanities
Main Author:	Niyi Akingbe
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Taylor & Francis Group 2022-12-01
Subjects:	Fulani herdsmen’s genocidal campaign herdsmen clash against farmers a pursuit of the caliphate’s expansionist agenda nigeria’s fragile nationhood Nigerian poetry
Online Access:	https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/23311983.2022.2126086

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