Title: Women's role in the Boko Haram conflict
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.
Subjects: Women, Social conditions, Abuse of, Boko Haram
Places: Nigeria
Time periods: 21st century