List of contributors
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1Mustapha Gwadabe is a Professor of Political History. He has been teaching in the Department of History at Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria since 1992. He is a Research Fellow at the Centre of African Studies, University of London. During his PhD, he worked on the colonial history of the city of Kano and published Kano Emirate under Colonial Rule, 1903-1953. He now specializes in Islamic dynamics in Nigeria, the Tidjaniyya brotherhood, and relationships with the Izala reformists.
2Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos holds a PhD in Political Science from the Institut d’études politiques de Paris (IEP), where he teaches. He is Head of Research at the Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD) and works on armed conflicts, forced displacements, and the assessment of humanitarian aid in Sub-Saharan Africa. He has lived for several years in Nigeria, South Africa, and Kenya and has published a large number of books, including Boko Haram: Islamism, Politics, Security, and the State in Nigeria (2015).
3Mohammed Kyari is a Historian who first studied the Borno region. He then specialized on religious movements and federalism. Professor Kyari has published extensively on Boko Haram and the issue of violent radicalism in Nigeria. He was the Vice-Chancellor of Modibbo Adama University of Technology in Yola between 2015 and 2019 and is now the Vice-Chancellor of the Nigerian Army University.
4Abdoulaye Sounaye is Head of Research at the Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin as well as a Researcher at Lasdel (Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherche sur les dynamiques sociales et le développement local), Nialey. He holds a PhD in Religious Studies / Anthropology from Northwestern University (USA). His many publications on Islam in Niger include research on secularism, the relationship between gender and religion, Islamic renewal, political Islam, the links between Islam and development, and between media and religion, as well as Salafist doctrines and discourse.
5Abdourahmane Idrissa holds a PhD in Political Sciences from the University of Florida. His research focuses on issues related to political Islam and democratization, and on the political economy of regional integration in West Africa. Among his many publications – articles and books, in English and French – he is the co-author of the Historical Dictionary of Niger and Democratic Struggle, Institutionnal Reform and the State Resilience in the African Sahel. He is a Senior Researcher at the African Studies Center, Leiden University.
6Élodie Apard is a Historian. She holds a PhD from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, for which she wrote a doctoral dissertation on the transmission of the Colonial State in Niger. She held the position of Researcher / Scientific Resident at IFRA-Nigeria from 2011 to 2015 and assumed the position of Director of the Institute from 2016 to 2020. She specializes in the study of political processes in the Sahel and the analysis of cross-border movements, including religious movements, as well as the evolution of Boko Haram in Nigeria and neighbouring countries.
7Adam Higazi is an Anthropologist with a PhD from Oxford University. He was a Research Fellow at Kings’ College, University of Cambridge, from 2010-14, then at the Department of Anthropology, University of Amsterdam, from 2016. He is also a Research Fellow at Modibbo Adama University of Technology in Yola. He specializes on Nigeria’s central zone (Middle Belt), where he has been conducting fieldwork at doctoral and postdoctoral levels since 2005. He has also carried out fieldwork in all six states of north-eastern Nigeria, including on Boko Haram. An important aspect of his research has been on pastoral Fulani communities across northern Nigeria and in neighbouring countries.
8Julien Roland is a professional translator and a PhD Candidate in Translation at Kent State University, in the USA. For many years, he lived in Nigeria, where he taught French. He Translated the French texts into English (Introduction, chapters 2, 3, 6 and 7)

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