Review
The examination of the relationship between religion and ethnic nationalism is significant. A product of extensive research, Violence in Nigeria makes a contribution to social and political history, contested values, and the future of nationhood. CHOICE, Feb. 99, Vol 36, #6 The book is impressively multi-disciplinary, combining methodologies and theories from history, political science, religious studies, public policy and sociology. It is a welcome addition to scholarship on post-colonial politics and religions in Africa. AF. ECONOMIC HISTORY #26A splendid achievement. Meticulously researched and perceptive, written with elegance and clarity, painstakingly balanced almost to a fault, controversial and disturbing, though surprisingly exhilarating and engrossing...it should be in every library interested in the intersections of religions and politics in the modern world. INT'L J. OF AF. STUDIESFalola...is a distinguished Nigerian historian who has indeed written a timely and a very absorbing book. AHR 2001

Book Description
Violence in Nigeria is the most comprehensive study of religious violence and aggression in Nigeria, notably its causes, consequences, and the options for conflict resolution. After an analysis of the links between religion and politics, the book elaborates on all the major cases of violence in the 1980s and 90s, including the Maitatsine, Kano, Bauchi, Kaduna, and Katsina riots. Zones of religious tensions are identified, as well as general characteristics of violence in Nigeria; and issues in inter and intra-religious relations, relious organizations, and the states, and the main actors in the conflicts are explored in great detail. A product of extensive primary research, Violence in Nigeria makes a contribution to contemporary social and political history that no previous study has attempted, and it is written to appeal to specialists and non-specialists alike.

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Violence in Nigeria is the most comprehensive study of religious violence and aggression in Nigeria, notably its causes, consequences, and the options for conflict resolution. After an analysis of the links between religion and politics, the book elaborates on all the major cases of violence in the 1980s and 1990s, including the Maitatsine, Kano, Bauchi, Kaduna, and Katsina riots. Zones of religious tensions are identified, as well as general characteristics of violence in Nigeria; and issues in inter- and intra-religious relations, religious organizations and the states, and the main actors in the conflicts are explored in great detail. Violence in Nigeria is written to appeal to specialists and non-specialists alike.

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