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Nigeria: Many silent Wars. How to Build Peace in Nigeria

18.10.2022 | All Africa


Many Silent Wars - How to Build Peace in Nigeria

Nigeria with 206 million people boasts the world's fastest-growing fintech market and booming technology start-ups. Nollywood, its film industry, and writers such as Chimamanda Adichie, have gripped the world's imagination. Nigeria's Gen Z musicians are conquering the world with the pulsating beats of Davido, Wizkid, and Burna Boy, among others.

But beneath these outward indications of confidence and potential, Africa's most populous country and the largest economy by GDP is a boiling cauldron of many conflicts that have left millions of its citizens destitute and hopeless and have cast a cloud over its future.

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Children, like these living at an internally displaced person camp in Maiduguri, Borno State, are principal victims of Nigeria's hidden wars.

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