Religion, Family Law, and Recognition of Identity in Nigeria
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In March 2008, the journalist Eliza Griswold described a burgeoning “competition” for believers between Muslims and Christians in the country of Nigeria—“God’s Country” according to the article’s title. The description is tragically ironic in light of the carnage that has accompanied this competition in the form of waves of interreligious violence after the implementation of Sharia criminal law in Nigeria’s northern states in 1999. The strife has resulted in the deaths of an estimated 13,000 Nigerians. The Nigerian struggles over Sharia, while not yet reaching the genocidal level of Rwanda, Congo, or Sudan, seem especially emblematic of the way in which religion—often in concert with other social, political, and economic factors—is manifesting itself in sub-Saharan Africa today. The stakes in Nigeria are particularly high for both U.S. and international relations. As Griswold points out:
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