FOCAC Ten Years Later: Achievements, Challenges and the Way Forward, is a joint project
of the Centre of African Studies, Peking University, and the Nordic Africa Institute (NAI). The …

This study looks at the relationships between religion, democracy, and peace. It is based on
this premise that this article examines how religion is used to consolidate democracy and …

A generous grant from the Open Society Institute, New York (OSI), made possible this paper.
I am indebted to OSI and its fellowship programme staff. Thanks are due the Institute of …

This paper examines the role of Muslim religious organisations in northern Nigeria as
religious interest groups in relation to government decision-making, including their role as …

In this dissertation, I conceptualize a rhetorical and linguistic analysis of politics from a
decolonial framework (Mignolo, 2011; Smith, 2012). My analysis draws on classical rhetoric …

This article investigates how Muslim politicians in northern Nigeria have used the institutions
of democracy and federalism to extend Shari'ah into the penal codes. The principal task of …

Amidst a 'local turn'in peacebuilding, donors have seized on the idea of 'localising'
peacebuilding programmes. Donors have sought to include actors who have local …

This paper seeks to contextualize the political and economic factors in the rise of the
phenomenon of Boko Haram in Nigeria. It argued that Boko Haram represents a very …

As a value-based problem, religious conflicts are disruptive and protracted. Indeed, Nigeria
has experienced a plethora of protracted religious conflicts since independence in I960 …

The religious and ethno-regional consciousness of Nigerian citizens has generated a lot of
human right issues in contemporary times. The different faith-based and socio-cultural …