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The Nigerian Shari’a crisis, with its layered and complicated processes, reveals contending perspectives, thoughts, and debates on governance and politics in contemporary Nigerian society. Significantly, this complex process is contested among Northern Nigerian Muslims themselves —not to mention the fierce contestations between Northern Nigerian Muslims and Northern non-Muslims, confrontations in the Middle Belt states with its significant Christian population, and endless struggles between Northern Muslims and Southern Christians — complicating the meaning of gender and generation, history and mythology, and state and society. Although these processes and their subjective narratives are susceptible to various forms of cultural essentialisms and reifications of traditions, they also engage discourses of power in important ways. At any rate, while mindful of liberal thought, these discourses of cultural affirmation and resistance to patriarchy are a powerful medium for the rationalization of power in Nigeria’s troubled nation-state.
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