Rethinking Boko Haram

Michael O. Nwankpa is Founder and Director of the Centre for African Conflict and Development, an independent research center based in London, United Kingdom. He is author of Nigeria's Fourth Republic, 1999–2021: A Militarized Democracy (2023) and editor with Abdulbasit Kassim of The Boko Haram Reader: From Nigerian Preachers to the Islamic State (2018). He is Research Associate in the African Centre for the Study of the United States and the Centre for Mediation in Africa within the Department of Political Sciences at the University of Pretoria, Associate Fellow at RUSI, and Fellow at the Center on Armed Groups.

Foreword, by David Cook
Acknowledgments
Introduction, by Michael O. Nwankpa
Part 1: Defining Boko Haram: Concept, History, and Method
1. Conceptualizing Boko Haram, by Michael O. Nwankpa
2. Historical Grievances and Jihadist Action: Boko Haram's Strategic Use of History for Socio-Political Change, by Zacharias Pieri
3. Boko Haram and the Neglected Role of Nigeria's Military History, by Oliver O. Coates
4. Twenty Years of Boko Haram Research: Critical Reflections on the State of the Art, by Mark Amaliya Anyorikeya
Part 2: The Military Response and the Evolution of Boko Haram
5. Interrogating the Military's Role in the Emergence and Transformation of Boko Haram Insurgency, by Michael O. Nwankpa and Susan J. Dibal
6. The Evolution of Boko Haram's Target Selection, 2015–2021: A Response to Military Pressure?, by Olivia Shoemaker and Justin Graham
Part 3: Interrogating the Religious Ideology in Boko Haram's Transformation
7. Boko Haram: An Inquiry into Religious Radicalization and Prospects for Peace, by Marc-Antoine De Perouse
Part 4: Boko Haram: New Angles and Approaches
8. Adaptation and Reinvention for Survival: The Case of Boko Haram, by Medinat Malefakis
9. Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province Weaponization of Resource Control: Strategy and Climate Change in Northeast Nigeria, by Usman Tar and Sasilkar Banu
10. The Emergence of the Islamic State by Lake Chad: Popular Perceptions of Marginality, Authority, and Justice, by Alessio Iocchi
11. From Borno to Benin: Understanding the Geographic Diffusion of the Boko Haram Insurgency, 2020–2023, by James Barnett and Murtala Ahmed Rufa'i
12. The Phenomenon of Vigilantism in the Fight against Jihadist Insurgency in Cameroon, by Hans De Marie Heungoup
13. The Rehabilitation Program: Reflections on the Reintegration of Ex-Boko Haram Fighters in Niger, by Maman Inoua Elhadji Mahamadou Amadou
Conclusion: Boko Haram and the Future of Jihadism in Nigeria, by Michael O. Nwankpa
Index