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‘EAT THE HEART OF THE INFIDEL’ ‘Eat the Heart of the Infidel’ The Harrowing of Nigeria and the Rise of Boko Haram ANDREW WALKER HURST & COMPANY, LONDON First published in the United Kingdom in 2016 by C. Hurst & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., 41 Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3PL © Andrew Walker, 2016 All rights reserved. Printed in England Distributed in the United States, Canada and Latin America by Oxford University Press, 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States of America. The right of Andrew Walker to be identified as the author of this publication is asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988. A Cataloguing-in-Publication data record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN: 9781849045582 This book is printed using paper from registered sustainable and managed sources. www.hurstpublishers.com CONTENTS Preface: The Strange Tale of John Henry Dorogu ix PART 1 1. If You Can’t Beat Them, Shun Them 3 2. Disputed Territory 27 3. Modes of Dealing 45 PART 2 4. Heart Rot 67 5. Big Potato on Top 75 6. Stomach Infrastructure 91 7. Eating the Cords of Society 109 PART 3 8. The Rest of Us are Just Hawking Peanuts 135 9. Kill Zones 169 10. Strange Cartography 197 11. Off with the Rat’s Head 217 Acknowledgements 221 Notes 225 Select Bibliography 245 Index 255 v N Lake Chad NIGER (pre-shrinking) 0 75 km Damasak Yobe Borno N’Djamena Kano Benisheik Maiduguri Damaturu Kano Bama Sambisa Forest CHAD Gwoza Chibok Kaduna Mandara Mts. Kaduna Adamawa Abuja B e n u e Yola CAMEROON Abuja Capital Territory © S J Ballard (2015) Modern Nigeria Hausa city states: Barth KATSINA Tahoua (1850) B o r n u c a l i GOBIR Lake p Zinder Chad h a Dori Degel t Barth Nguru e (1853) Say Sokoto KATSINA DAURA Kukawa Niger Birnin Kebbi KANO (BHIaRdAejMa) (B1a8r5t1h) RANO ZAZZAU (Zaria) Ningi Kaduna Bauchi Maroua Gombe nce Zungeru PlaJtoesau ue nfl Yola of i British sphere Lokoja Benue Ngaoundéré Bight of Benin M(osNdhiegarednre idada)y British sphere of influence N Niger delta 0 200 km © S J Ballard (2015) Sokoto Caliphate (in the 1850s)
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