Boko Haram has over the years morphed from an Islamic sect into an IS-affiliated armed movement waging a deadly insurgency that threatens regional stability.
The group, whose name roughly translates from the Hausa language spoken in northern Nigeria as “Western education is forbidden”, aims to create an Islamic caliphate in the territories it controls. Its first leader was Mohammed Yusuf, who advocated a radical form of Islam and said Western values installed by Nigeria’s former British rulers were responsible for the country’s ills. He attracted countless disaffected youths in Maiduguri, capital of the northeastern Borno state, with vocal criticism of a corrupt secular regime that neglected development in the mainly Muslim region. Read more on vanguard.
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