INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE AS A TEMPLATE FOR ENDING BOKOHARAM MENACE IN NIGERIA

Abstract

The efforts of our past use and present leaders in winding down the gruff activities of the dreaded Boko haram have met with zero results. Every four years, leaders from different political parties have used it to campaign, promising they will subdue the activities of the dangerous Islamic sect. However, all the promises have resulted in cheap lies and cloud chasing. It is disruptive, demoralising, disconcerting and disorienting that the billions of naira used in purchasing foreign sophisticated weapons have not forced out the anti–people from our natal land. Since this method has failed woefully, the research explored indigenous knowledge as an alternative to foreign methods of fighting the group. Many researchers have written on the subject matter, but quite a number of them have not chronologically delineated the importance of spiritual, indigenous and cultural ways of fighting the menace. This is the focus of the research. Primary and secondary sources were used to elicit information. The research found that the use of foreign weapons has failed, and the prayers of the adherents of foreign religions have seated comfortably on the fence of the wuss, hence the need to return to our roots. The research recommended that the traditional religious way of fishing out their sponsors would be more effective, and the paper summed up that the soldiers fighting the war need African traditional science to fight and protect themselves.