CHILDREN AS PARTICIPANTS IN TERRORISM: UCHE AGUH’S SAMBISA (2016) AS A PARADIGM
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2025
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Emerald Publishing Limited
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In 2002, the organization, Jamat Al Asunnah Lid-Da’wa’l-Jihad popularly
known as Boko Haram was created in North Eastern Nigeria. This organization which was founded by Mohammed Yusuf was to later adopt the ideology that Western Education was Forbidden. The decolonial stance of Boko
Haram later degenerated into its campaign of violence, leading to the killing of its founder by the Nigerian state. Interestingly, the role of children in the
advancement of the Boko Haram insurgency and how this impacts their psychological lives seems to have been overlooked in scholarship on terrorism.
There remains a dearth of critical underpinning on how all of the above is represented in Nigerian film. To this end, this study examines child participation in
terrorism in Nigeria and its effect on the psychological well-being of the child.
Using the Boko Haram terrorist group as a paradigm, the authors argue that
children, especially the girl child play a major role in the advancement of terrorism in Nigeria. The study engages in a content analysis of Uche Aguh’s film,
Sambisa (2016) to interrogate the challenges the child encounters in the face of terrorism in Nigeria and examines children as major actors in the enterprise
of terrorism in Nigeria.
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• Okpadah, S.O. and Ogunmekan, D. (2024), “Children as Participants in Terrorism: Uche Aguh’s Sambisa (2016) as a paradigm”, Shah, T.M. (Ed.) Children and Youth in Armed Conflict: Responses, Resistance, and Portrayal in Media (Sociologocal Studies of Children and Youth, Vol. 35), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 189-200.