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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Jason Okundaye

‘Ignoring minorities is our original sin’: the complex roots of Nigeria’s security crisis

The Long Wave composite image: a member of the Nigeria army poses for a photograph in Dutse, Nigeria. Army tank at the checkpoint entrance of Monguno, Borno state with local people entering. Fulani herdsman Isa Ibrahim. Women and children rescued from Boko Haram arrive at an internally displaced people's camp in Yola, Adamawa State, Nigeria.
No singular resolution … battles across religious, political and ethnic lines have muddied the situation in Nigeria. Composite: Getty/Pejman Faratin/The Guardian

“If they explain Nigeria to you and you understand it, they didn’t explain it well enough”. So goes the maxim for trying to parse Nigeria’s labyrinthine political dynamics. A security crisis has engulfed the country, catching the attention of the US president in the process. With the help of our West Africa correspondent, Eromo Egbejule, I’ll try to get to the bottom of what is happening.

The marginalisation of Nigeria’s minorities

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