Tainted Legacy

In recent years attacks by Muslims in Nigeria have killed thousands of Christians. This study traces the crisis back to the historical impact of Islamic colonialism and slavery and the entrenching of their malign influence by British colonialism. A tainted legacy of discrimination and cruelty has been left to the Christians of Northern Nigeria.

Yusufu Turaki

Yusufu Turaki is director of the Centre for the Study of Religion, Church and Society (CRCS). He holds a Ph.D. in Social Ethics from Boston University, and a Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship at Yale Divinity School. He was the General Secretary of the Evangelical Church of West Africa (ECWA), is a former National Vice-President of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and worked with the Association of Evangelicals in Africa (AEA) and the International Bible Society (IBS) in Nigeria and Kenya.