The family is in crisis and high poverty levels have created a significant push factor, leading to poor families sending out their boys as almajirai and marrying their daughters out at a very young age – often, before their teenage years.
The family is in crisis and high poverty levels have created a significant push factor, leading to poor families sending out their boys as almajirai and marrying their daughters out at a very young age – often, before their teenage years. This means families are abdicating their traditional roles of grooming the next generation to adulthood.
These dimensions indicate that the nature of the problem is much more than security challenges and the solutions must be all-encompassing. Social issues must be addressed and the 13.2 million children out of school in Northern Nigeria must receive the education they need and deserve. The Almajiri system must be addressed and early marriage for girls must be discouraged, and access to school until the age of 18 years is the best pathway.
This year, the Boko Haram insurgency became a decade old and while their forces have, according to the consecrated word, been degraded, they are still doing a lot of harm. The military approach is simply insufficient and there is a risk that the conflict will linger for many more years if the “soft” elements of countering violent extremism, such as through improved religious education and control and development of counter-narratives by religious authorities, are not fast tracked.
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