Last month (May 2021) the news was that Abubakar Shekau, leader of Boko Haram, is dead. He apparently was chased down by his rivals in the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) and asked to surrender. He chose to die. By suicide bomb.

Last week on the Backstory podcast, we began to trace the internal developments within the insurgent group that made this outcome unavoidable. This week we ask: what happens next?

This episode was produced by Nabilah Usman, Richard Anyebe, Anthonieta Kalunta, Dominic Tabakaji, and Sam Tabakaji.

Executive producer Rahmat Muhammad.

Special thanks to Abdulbasit Kassim, Murtala Abdullahi, Rabia Hadejia and Mala Iwa Gbado Ikaleku.

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We relied on the following sources for this episode:

▶︎The Crisis Group

https://www.crisisgroup.org

▶︎The Council on Foreign Relations

https://www.cfr.org

▶︎HumAngle

https://humangle.ng

▶︎Boko Haram: The History of an African Jihadist Movement by Alexander Thurston

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691172248/boko-haram

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