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Picking up the pieces: social capital and entrepreneurship for livelihood recovery among displaced populations in Northeast Nigeria [PDF]
The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version.In the past few decades, there has been a significant increase in the rate of forced displacement, often precipitated by persecution, civil wars, terrorism, transborder ...
James, Saliba +3 more
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Spatial Price Integration and Spillover Linkages Between Regional Grain Markets in Nigeria
ABSTRACT This paper aims to characterize the spatial set‐up of Nigeria's grain market integration from January 2002 to December 2013 across 19 Nigerian regions. Using market price data of maize, sorghum, and millet, two hypotheses are tested: (i) the law of one price across market pairs, and (ii) the leader market hypothesis in any network of market ...
Yacouba Kassouri, N' Zué Felix Fofana
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Since 2009, the radical Muslim movement in northern Nigeria known as Boko Haram has become widely known in Western media for both its militant actions and its ultra-fundamentalist programme. This analysis examines Boko Haram from a historical perspective,
Roman Loimeier
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Christian Churches and the Boko Haram Insurgency in Cameroon: Dilemmas and Responses
The spillover of the terrorist activities of Boko Haram, a Nigerian jihadi group, into Cameroon’s north has resulted in security challenges and humanitarian activity opportunities for Christian churches.
Lang Michael Kpughe
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Book review: 'eat the heart of the Infidel': the harrowing of Nigeria and the rise of Boko Haram by Andrew Walker [PDF]
In ‘Eat the Heart of the Infidel’: The Harrowing of Nigeria and the Rise of Boko Haram, journalist Andrew Walker examines the emergence of Boko Haram, teasing out the societal and state structures that contributed to its rise and sustained its position ...
Ajala, Fisayo
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Armed Conflict and Livestock Species Choices in Northern Nigeria: Evidence From Panel Data Analysis
ABSTRACT This study examines how armed conflict influences livestock species choices among households in northern Nigeria, a region with livelihoods largely dependent on livestock keeping. Using household panel survey data with global georeferenced conflict data, this study observes significant trends in livestock ownership patterns from 2010 to 2016 ...
Olusegun Fadare, Isaac Omorogbe
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West African English in Digital Discourse [PDF]
This paper applies sociolinguistic and discourse-analytical approaches to examine the features of West African English (WAE) in digital discourse. Data comprises 23,374 posts and responses from some popular social and political online forums hosted by ...
Chiluwa, Innocent
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Abstract The current review systematically synthesizes existing literature to provide a comprehensive overview of the nature of financial crimes in Africa and their impact on economic growth. We adopted the PRISMA protocol to identify 128 papers from the Scopus database, which were analyzed using MS Excel, VOSviewer, and R‐packages (Bibliometrix).
Kingsley K. Arthur +5 more
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ABSTRACT This is the protocol for a Campbell systematic review. The objectives are as follows. The EGM has three main objectives: (1) Identify the strength (in terms of evidence quality) and depth (in terms of volume of evidence) of evidence base on the efficacy of situational crime prevention measures in preventing terrorist attacks against soft ...
Zoe Marchment +2 more
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Tactics Used by the Terrorist Organisation Boko Haram
Boko Haram is no regular terrorist organization; although not as widely-known as the Islamic State or Al-Qaeda, Boko Haram has been declared the deadliest terror group of 2014.
Pricopi Marius
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