Beyond Boko Haram
- Author:
- Thomson Reuters Foundation
- Publisher:
- Thomson Reuters Foudation
- Publication Date:
- 24 August 2017
- Tags:
- Nigeria, Conflict, Peace and Security, Health and Medicine, Human Rights, Sustainable Development, Women and Gender
Psychologist Dr Fatima Akilu, who trained in the NHS, works with both victims and members of Islamist militant group Boko Haram. She set up up the first de-radicalisation programme in Nigeria, to counter extremist narratives. This film explores her 'counselling on wheels programme', accessing remote communities in Northeast Nigeria who have been victims of Boko Haram, as well as her long term de-radicalisation work one of Boko Haram's ideological leaders, and young women who joined the group.
