Books by Alexander Thurston

4. Alexander Thurston, Boko Haram: The History of an African Jihadist Movement .  Makes a murky history relatively easy to follow, by the way: “Put all these ideas together, and “Boko Haram” means something like “Western culture is forbidden by Islam” or “the Westernized elites and their ways of doing things contradict Islam” — not just in schools but also in politics and society.”