An Epidemic of Kidnapping: Interpreting School Abductions and Insecurity in Nigeria

by Aly Verjee and Chris M. A. Kwaja Abstract Attacks on Nigerian school students from December 2020 to August 2021 saw hundreds of children abducted and prompted a national outcry at the state’s seeming inability to prevent such events. This recent wave of abductions follows other notorious incidents of mass abduction and murder of students, most […]