Letter from Africa To BBC: Nigeria community divided over Boko Haram

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Letter from Africa To BBC: Nigeria community divided over Boko Haram

• 31 March 2016
 
• From the sectionAfrica

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Image captionBoko Haram Islamist militants seized Michika in September 2014

In our series of letters from African journalists, novelist and writer Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani travels to a Nigerian town split along ethnic and religious lines by Boko Haram's Islamist insurgency.

Long after the last militant has been annihilated and the final suicide bomb exploded, the effects of Boko Haram's terror tactics in Nigeria's north-east will still be seen and felt. And not just in the bodies maimed or the properties razed or the offspring of rape.

The insurgents are leaving behind in some communities a dense cloud of internecine hatred and suspicion.

Last month, I travelled to Michika on a mission organised by the Adamawa Peace Initiative, an interfaith attempt to reduce violence and build peace through a collaboration of local religious, community and business leaders.

Since 2012 it has been engaged in a number of joint peace-building programmes in the north-eastern state of Adamawa, working with the American University of Nigeria, and Michika is currently top of their list.

The town, one of the largest in the state, has a mixed Christian and Muslim population, Click here to read the complete news and see what bbc is sayin concerning  our beautiful NIGERIA vs BOKO HARAM.