Women's role in the Boko Haram conflict
By: Oliver Blau
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Published: 2016
Place of publication: München]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 22
ISBN-13: 9783668416192
Subjects: Women; Social conditions; Abuse of; Boko Haram
Description: Women have always played a crucial part in West Africa. In comparison with their African and European counterparts, they had emancipated themselves relatively early. In colonial times it was they who led the protests against colonial authorities. This paper is about the rise of the terrorist organization Boko Haram and women's role in this new conflict in post colonial Nigeria.
Notes: Cover title.

"Seminar paper."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 19-22)