A Song of Africa: the Roots of Boko Haram

A Song of Africa: the Roots of Boko Haram

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Fortune seeking engineer, Paul Jeffries, out to make millions on a state of the art telecommunications project in Nigeria reluctantly agrees to reach out to the idealistic American ambassadorâ€™s daughter who has fled into the besieged rebel enclave of Biafra to help refugees there in the mid 1960â€™s. The journey will take them both to the darkest and most dangerous corner of one of Africaâ€™s bloodiest civil wars. It will test the limits of their commitment to the people of Africa and to the discovery of their commitment to each

You need to read this book if you want to understand the backdrop of history that created the fertile soil for todayâ€™s homegrown terrorist group - Boko Haram - to literally spring up over night and within half a dozen years bring the most populous country in Africa to the greatest crisis in its history.

You need to read this book if you want to have an insight on how the events taking place in Nigeria today are a microcosm of the turmoil taking place today across Africa and the Middle East.

Boko Haram Update

To understand the rise of the terrorist group unique to Nigeria, Boko Haram, one has to understand a little of the history of Nigeria. â€œA Song of Africa,â€ integrates that history in an exciting and non intrusive way.

Boko Haram is led by Abubakar Shekau. His rise to power in just a few short years resembles the strategy of Uthman dan Fodio who led the first Jihad in Nigeria at the beginning of the nineteenth century.

At that time the Hausa-Fulani states were controlled by pagan rulers. The minority of devout Moslems in the north suffered under this leadership which they considered both politically oppressive and morally decadent.

In the early 1800â€™s an itinerate devout Islamic scholar, Uthman dan Fodio, through his door to door, village to village, proselytizing and his religious zeal began to unify a suffering minority that grew to the point that Uthman declared himself the Amin al-Muminin, the commander of the faithful and proclaimed a jihad that spread the â€œnewâ€ religion throughout the north uniting the Hausa states in a secular and religious structure that is the dominate political force in the country today.

Shekau has copied Uthmanâ€™s strategy only now the jihad is against Christians and western education and culture that he considers both politically oppressive and morally decadent.

A SONG OF AFRICA â€œIf I know a song of Africa, - I thought â€“ of the Giraffe, and the African new moon lying on her back, of the poughs in the fields, and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me? Would the air over the plain quiver with a colour that I had on, or the children invent a new game in which my name was, or the full moon cast a shadow over the gravel of the drive that was like me, or would the eagles of Ngong look out for me?â€ Isak Dinneson â€œOut of Africaâ€ "This country is filled with foreign spies." His eyes on the American, the officer took a small black book from his shirt pocket. "What is you name?" he demanded. "A SONG OF AFRICA vividly portrays three distinct personalities playing out their private battles of conscience, pride and passion within the context of an elemental fight for power. Their reactions to the events around them are exquisitely rendered and reveal strenghts and qualities they never knew they possessed. For each Nigeria is a revelation. Ronald Brian Wheatley depicts his setting as forcefully as his characters, from the idyllic plateau region Paul (Jeffries) calls home to the perilous mangrove infested tributaries in the South. The author depicts his setting as forcefully as his characters. Through these characters and others, a traumatic episode of recent history is clarified and presented in all its poignancy and drama." Ashley Books.

Selected as Best Historical Novel published in 2011 by "Books & Authors"
Country USA
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2013-12-31
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2013-12-31
Format	Kindle eBook

A Song of Africa: the Roots of Boko Haram

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