Nigeria’s Counter-Terrorism Strategy - Constructions of Threat, Response and Identity

This book critically engages with Nigeria''s counter-terrorism strategy as a means of identity construction. Drawing on a wealth of archival materials, Kodili Chukwuma analyses how the federal government articulates and justifies its counter-terrorism policy against specific ‘terrorist’ groups such as Boko Haram in order to construct Nigeria''s identity. He argues that the designation of particular terrorist threats as a new form of terrorism in Nigeria – and beyond – enables state counter-terrorism interventions. Revealing the complexities of Nigeria''s counter-terrorist strategy, this book sheds new light on critical terrorism and critical security studies in a key postcolonial context.