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Author: Audu Bulama Bukarti

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Audu Bulama Bukarti

Audu Bulama Bukarti is an analyst at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change in London. Originally from Nigeria, he has researched Boko Haram for a decade and is now pursuing a Ph.D. on the subject at SOAS University of London. A trained lawyer, Bulama holds a degree in common and Islamic law as well as a master of laws degree. He has taught law and jurisprudence, peace studies, and conflict resolution at Bayero University, Kano, and has practised as a human rights and employment lawyer in Nigeria for half a decade.

  • boko haram Outside Kurmi Market in Kano, North West Nigeria. Credit: Eugene Kim.
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    By Audu Bulama Bukarti
    February 17, 2021
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    The most worrying aspect of the Kankara kidnapping

    Could Boko Haram’s spread in northwest Nigeria increase opportunities for coordination between Islamist groups in the Lake Chad Basin and Sahel? On 17 December, 344 schoolboys ...
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    By Audu Bulama Bukarti
    October 17, 2020
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    #ENDSARS: There is no North-South divide

    SARS is as vicious and corrupt in northern Nigeria as it is in the south. Claiming otherwise is false.  Over the past two weeks, Nigeria saw ...
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