The 's Education Crisis : Boko Haram Targeting Schools

In Nigeria, a student detonated himself during a school assembly. Many students were killed and many more were injured. The student was part of a group called Boko Haram. The group has been recruiting young people. The suicide by the student was part of the violent campaign to get more people recruited for Boko Haram which does not like the Nigeria's school system. The group wants Islam to be prominent in peoples lives. The social issues between Nigerian schools and Boko Haram led to the suicide bomber detonating during

The Boko Haram sect in Nigeria has been a huge problem for the country in the past, and the threat is only growing. This group is considered responsible for a handful of government attacks, targets on the United Nations, and often churches who undermine the Islamic religion. Their actions have spawned from the idea that their country is controlled by “fake Muslims”, and aim to create an Islamic nation ruled with Sharia law.

Sudan is a crossroads through which many extremists groups combine or swap men, material and know-how. A coup in 1989 brought to power a group of generals allied to high-minded Islamists of an earlier vintage who, two decades ago, played host to Osama bin Laden. Since then the regime has grown suspicious of unbridled Islamism, though it is not averse to co-opting it, too. The main university in Khartoum, the capital, has been a magnet for radical students. Some have moved on to battlefields to the north and east, following in bin Laden’s footsteps.

Different sources have different causes of what they say was the motivation for Boko Haram’s attacks. Some sources say it was the killing of their leader in 2009 and some even say that the it was due to global warming within that country, but whatever it is, it is a big problem not only for the Islamic states but all of the other countries of the world. Their different attacks seem to show what the source of this motivation was. The group is very hard to understand in terms of their overall motivation because there is so little known information about them. Information in general is hard to come by from Nigeria. Police officers and city officials so corrupt that they give the citizens little to no information as to what is going on (Walker, 2012, p. 7). They are too motivated by their own selfish goals. The Boko Haram group itself has given no really helpful information as it has denied bombings and other terroristic activities.

In April 2014 the militant terrorist group Boko Haram kidnapped 276 girls from their Nigerian school. The girls were raped, forced to convert to Islam, and maintained in captivity, or sold into marriage (Whiting). This egregious act shocked the world and focused attention on the treatment of women and girls around the world. The most public individual woman among the oppressed is Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl, who in 2012 at age 15, was shot by the Taliban for demanding that girls be allowed to attend school (Hodges and Gross). Heroes are people who stand for their beliefs. Malala was not alone on that school bus; other girls were also defying the Taliban. The Nigerian school girls knew Boko Haram was in the area; the terrorists had already kidnapped or killed hundreds of people, but the girls were still at school. This week, Frontline is broadcasting a program, "Escaping ISIS," on the treatment of women and girls, and the attempts to help them. Anyone watching the program will be viewing a number of

Empowering Women Is A Sin: A Comparison Between Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid's Tale and 21st Century Boko Haram Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid's Tale is an eerie dystopia that depicts a future in which the United States of America has been taken over by an extremist cult. Atwood drew inspiration for her universe from historical moments and as a result the book has been used to analyze current society and contemporary events around the world. An issue that has been documented for the last sixteen years is the African terrorist group named Boko Haram. Aminu Abubakar, Bukola Adebayo, Greg Botelho, Stephanie Busari, and Tim Lister are five journalist from the Cable News Network who have kept tabs on the institutions activity.

The Republic of Niger, a poor, landlocked country, located in the heart of Sub-Saharan West Africa. Niger has seen its fair share of change throughout the decades; moving away from the control of the French Parliament in 1960, Niger formally declared its independence. Despite this bold act of independence, Niger would not see its first steps towards democracy until the early 1990’s, when they held their first open election as a free state. However, even with the empowerment of the people in a democratic government, Niger has seen itself nearly torn apart as a result constant coups, that have occurred as recently as 2010. Such instability has led to incredulous amounts of corruption and poverty, within the Niger government. This lack of stability and constant turnover in government, has been a driving factor behind the lack of resources available for education in Niger.

This article is about the mistreatment of people fleeing from Boko Haram who thought that the Nigerian soldiers would save them. As hundreds flee from Boko Haram claimed territories, Nigerian soldiers are picking them up and holding them as prisoners in detention centers, claiming to be trying to protect others from extremist claiming to be victims. This has lead to some accusations of mistreatment because these detention centers are holding men, women, and infants for months on end in unsanitary and unsafe areas. The article then explains that the Nigerian government and army are being accused of being too extreme in its persistence and ways of trying to eliminate Boko Haram. While Nigeria is struggling to handle the threat that is Boko Haram,

Last Decade governments and high ranking officials from across the globe came together under the magnanimous principles of The Universal Declaration of Human rights giving birth to the millennium development goals.The 8 goals and 21 targets capture ambitious promises such as eradicating poverty and hunger and achieving universal primary education by 2015. (UN.org) Yet with just a few months away from the deadline this historic chapter will close in tragedy.The setting for this tragic tale is Sub-Saharan Africa where 50 million children and youth still remain out-of-school.Despite extraordinary progress in enrollment stark disparities still remain. Poor children across the region are victims of an insidious “lottery of life” where the family they are born into means everything and nothing. (efa governance matters)For a poor child born into poverty the chances of that child finishing school once they start are slim, and if that child happens to be female she can only dream of what it’s like inside a classroom. Experts have declared Africa’s education crisis a state of emergency as dangerously low completion rates, and poor learning achievement have left an indelible stain on educational goals. Africa’s education crisis is a result strong socio-economic and cultural barriers which have created major stumbling blocks in both access to education and learning outcomes.Consequently millions of of children and youth are being robbed of their futures.

This article was about the Nigerian school girls that were kidnapped by Boko Haram about two years ago. The author wrote about how the search for the girls isn’t over as well as how the girls rescues are being planned, but the military and government officials from America are afraid that if they attempt to rescue one group of the girls the other will suffer because of it. African officials are afraid that Boko Haram is making the school girls become suicide bombers or giving them the option to become suicide bombers to escape the lives they are facing. They believe that the girls are choosing to be suicide bombers to escape the lives of being trapped, used for childbearing and abused that they have been forced into.

There is a saying that the only time people realized the importance of someone or something is when they lose it. People start missing and regret what they missed. As a student I found that most students do not cherish the opportunities of going to school. They do not like and are tired of the homework their teachers assigned and a bunch of tests, quizzes they have every week. What these student do not know is that in some counties the opportunity to get education is relatively low than the countries they lived in. They also do not know how powerful schooling can be and how some people’s lives can be changed through going to school. In the book I Am Malala, the author Malala Yousafzai describes her tough life of pursuing education under the Taliban’s control. And how she fights against the Taliban for her right for education. Knowledge is the primary thing that people can get from education. By going to school, people learn how to read, write and some critical thinking skills. Without this knowledge, people are not able to identify right and wrong. Knowing how easily ignorant people can be controlled, terrorist do whatever they can to stop people, especially girls, from going to school. However, education is a powerful tool for fighting these terrorist, because well-educated people are harder to be fooled and controlled.

For the past seven years innocence have been injured, killed, or brutally tortured by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram. They have lost their homes and precious possessions due to a cruel, selfish satisfaction of this organization. Boko Haram members believe that these “brutal penalties” is just an ordinary way to express their culture. Although Nigeria came to a conclusion that these terrorists had given up, it only took five months later to realize it was not the end. Nigeria’s strategies had gotten them nowhere and only led them back to where they started.

Throughout his paper, Tooley shows problems that the public schools of Africa have. (Tooley 9) He shows the first problem by saying, “An estimated 40 million primary-school-age children in sub-Saharan Africa are not in school and in half of the countries less than 60% finish the full course of schooling.” (Tooley 9) Afterward, He gives the quote, “The United

But they seem to have this hope in their hearts,’ and they [the parents] were asking if they could meet the president.” This ripped many souls making people think ‘why would anyone do such a thing?’ Also “Teen Pakistani Activist Urges Release of Kidnapped Nigerian Schoolgirls” says, "Protect girls from cruelty," she said in her annual Malala Day speech. Girls, she said, should not be forced to marry or to leave school to become brides "when the y should be girls," or to give birth to children "when they themselves are children." Imagine a daughter giving birth at the age 13, that 13 year old would have lots of unnecessary stress that she doesn’t need. “She urged the government to drastically reduce the number of children who are out of school throughout the country, not just in the area targeted by Boko Haram.” According to “Teen Pakistani Activist Urges Release of Kidnapped Nigerian Schoolgirls”” school is a big issue for these

Growing up in Nigeria, I was aware of the insecurity rampant in the nation. Reports of kidnappings, gun violence, ritualistic killings, and of late, terrorist attacks are frequent. Though I heard the stories and even knew some people that had personal experience, I viewed them as distant from myself and my family. I never thought such an event would happen to me. It turns out that I was living with a false sense of security. Such experiences change people and I am not an exception. The year 2012 and the events it had in store for me altered my world view and my reality.