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Book SynopsisGoing beyond the headlines, including the group’s 2014 abduction of 276 girls in Chibok and the ensuing international outrage,
Boko Haram provides readers new to the conflict with a clearly written and comprehensive history of how the group came to be, the Nigerian government’s failed efforts to end it, and its impact on ordinary citizens.
Trade Review[This] nimble short history … stands out for a section on creative responses to the group in literature and television. It also explores how the conflict’s intractability has given rise to a thick culture of conspiracy theories, propelled by social media…. Kendhammer and McCain trace the conspiratorial mindset to a history of Nigerian government corruption. Nigeria, they show, deals with the same vexations of fake news as the rest of the globalized world, but via its own particular history. * The Times Literary Supplement *
