Dr. Michael Nwankpa is the founder and director of the Center for African Conflict and Development. He is the author of Nigeria's Fourth Republic, 1999-2021: A Militarized Democracy (2023) and co-author of The Boko Haram Reader: From Nigerian Preachers to the Islamic State (2018). He is a Research Associate in the African Centre for the Study of the United States and the Centre for Mediation in Africa, Political Sciences Department, University of Pretoria.
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1. Ways of Moving: Infrastructure for Empire Part I: Colonial Pathways 2. Muddy Paths and Streams: The English Colonies and Transportation to the 1670s 3. From Warriors' Paths to Wagon Roads: Transportation in the 1670s-1740s Part II: Wars and Upheaval 4. "Yet I Shall Go More Surely": Roads and the French and Indian War, 1754-1766 5. Revolutionary Expansion: Transportation and the Frontier in the American War of Independence Part III: New Pathways 6. Visions of Expansion: The Internal Improvements Debate and Native American Dispossession 7. Indian Removal and Transportation in the Old Northwest 8. Indian Removal and Transportation in the Old Southwest Epilogue and Conclusions: "You Are as Much Worthy of Pity as We Are" Abbreviations in Notes Notes Bibliography Index
"There is no small amount of research on Boko Haram, but only in recent years, with time, trained researchers, and better data, has the fragmented and often redundant information become better organized and thus able to identify gaps and new directions. . . . Nwankpa, as well as the material overall, does a very fine job of explaining how the periodization of Boko Haram-identifying precursors, the 2002-2015 era, and the post-2015 period-usefully organizes the literature and the evolution of the group itself."-A. Carl LeVan, American University