BOKO HARAM SINCE 2009: A STUDY IN SECURITY HISTORY (PROF AO AHMED PROFESSORIAL INAUGURAL LECTURE - PP) (original) (raw)

RATIONALIZING THE TOPIC & THE PRESENTER; The Aim of this paper is to deliver a professorial Inaugural lecture. Indeed, it is the 7th in the Series of lectures of this type at the Nigerian Defence Academy, Africa’s Top Military University, Kaduna Nigeria. It is often the believe though contestably that a Professor is not complete and or genuine until he/she delivers his/her Inaugural Lecture. As such, today I am fulfilling this cardinal requirement of the top echelon of the Academia. I thank all those who made this possible in their various capacities and relationship with me. The FOCUS is BOKO HARAM SINCE 2009: A STUDY IN SECURITY HISTORY. There are several literatures latent and littering intellectual landscape and global academic shopping centre on the gamut of Boko Haram. However, there is none in those works that has linked the research to a new field, a fresh disciplinary call and a creativity in methodological delineation that has the potentiality of turning the profession of the academia nay History around albeit productively. This endeavor therefore to my knowledge is the first of its kind. It should be pointed out here that this endeavor is not a study of Boko Haram BUT about HOW TO STUDY BOKO HARAM & to a lesser degree, how to study other Conflicts, Crises, Wars, Imbroglios & etc, etc EVENTS using the methodology, methods and historiography of Security History. The SCOPE is deliberately chosen to commence from the inception of the phenomenon. Boko Haram came to the public glare in 2009 when it went into confrontation with the policemen and its crude militarism unleashed on the people. Since then it has unbreakably continued to be a nightmare, a recurring decimal and an anguish to Nigeria and the World.

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