Who are Boko Haram?

In this discussion, Raffaelo Pantucci, Senior Research Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, Bala Liman, PhD Candidate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, Virginia Comolli, Research Associate for Transnational Threats at the International Institute of Strategic Studies, and James Schneider, editor-in-chief at Think Africa Press, talked about the northern Nigerian militant Islamist group Boko Haram. For those of you who listened to the start of the conversation on the Think Africa Press podcast, you can skip forwards to 8.39. For further reading and useful sources, go to http://thinkafricapress.com/nigeria/podcasts/who-are-boko-haram