Grace O Okoye African History Books sku-37784520 Hardcover

Grace O Okoye's Proclivity to Genocide: Northern Nigeria Ethno-Religious Conflict, 1966 to Present is a hardcover in African History Books, SKU sku-37784520. It examines decades of killings in northern Nigeria, beginning with the 1966 massacres of thousands of Ibos and continuing through violence between extremist Muslims and Christians or other non-Muslims.

Across five phases, the book considers how ethnicity and religion contribute to the conflict and whether the killings show genocidal intent. It compares patterns in the conflict with historical massacres and twentieth-century genocides, develops a Genocide Proclivity Model and derives a substantive theory using the Strauss and Corbin (1990) approach.

The book argues that intent to exterminate people on religious or ethnic grounds underlies many of the intermittent killings. It examines evidence of intent to exclude Christians and other non-Muslims through the imposition of Sharia Law and to force assimilation or kill those who refuse.

It argues that the intermittent nature of the violence has kept these genocidal inclinations less visible, offers recommendations and calls for international intervention.