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Barrister
Audu Bulama Bukarti
Born1984
Yobe State
NationalityNigerian
EducationLLM, LLB, BL
Alma materBayero University, Kano, Nigerian Law School
Occupation(s)Senior Analyst, Public Intellectual and Human Rights Lawyer
Years active2012 to date
EmployerTony Blair Institute for Global Change
OrganizationCenter for Strategic and International Studies
Known forPrinciple
AwardsCoWa Award 2017

Audu Bulama Bukarti is a prominent Nigerian analyst, social critique, public intellectual and human rights lawyer.

He is currently Senior Analyst in the Extremism Policy Unit of the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change,[1] senior non-resident at the Africa Program of the Center for Strategic and International Studies[2] and also an opinion columnist at Daily Trust northern Nigeria's largest newspaper where he writes every Wednesday.[3]

Bulama's research focuses on violent extremist groups in sub-Saharan Africa. He has studied extremist groups in Africa for over a decade and has written many papers, commentaries, and op-eds on extremist groups’ history, ideology, and strategy; deradicalization and reintegration of former fighters; and response to COVID-19, including for Foreign Policy, the Independent, the Telegraph, CNN, the Council on Foreign Relations, Hudson Institute, the National, and War on the Rocks. He has been cited several times each in The Washington Post,[4] The Wall Street Journal,[5] The New York Times,[6] The Guardian,[7] The Telegraph, and Reuters, among others. He has granted interviews various outlets of BBC World Service, Sky News, France 24, Voice of America, Al Jazeera TRT World and a host of others.

Early life and education

Bulama was born in Bukarti town of Yobe State, Nigeria, he started his education in Bukarti Primary School, Yobe, he obtained his Nigeria Certificate in Education (NCE) in 2005, from College of Education Gashua, Nigeria. he attended Bayero University, Kano between 2006 and 2011 where he obtained Bachelor of Laws (Common & Islamic Law); at Second Class Upper grade he went to Nigerian Law School where he was trained as Legal Practitioner and he was called to bar in 2012.

In 2016 Bukarki obtained his Master of Laws from Bayero University, Kano and he is currently at SOAS University of London for Doctor of Philosophy in Law.

Career

Bulama started his career as Assistant Senior Accounts Officer II at Karasuwa Local Government of Yobe State where he work for ten years that is from 2003 to 2013 in 2014 Bukarti become Lecturer at Bayero University, Kano under the department of Law up to 2018 in 2017 Bulama joined Tony Blair Institute for Global Change as Sub-Saharan Africa Analyst, he is a Human Rights and Employment Legal Practice[8][9]

He is a regular guest on Hausa- and English-language channels, including Voice of America, BBC,[10][11] Aljazeera and Deutsche Welle;[12] he has spoken at the University of Oxford and Chatham House;[13] Harvard University, Yale University, George Washington University and many more.

Publications

  1. The most worrying aspect of the Kankara kidnapping, African Arguments, (February 2021)[14][15]
  2. The West in African Violent Extremists’ Discourse, Hudson Institute (October 2020)[16]
  3. The Mozambique Conflict and Deteriorating Security Situation, Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (June 2020)[17]
  4. A deadly alliance: coronavirus makes Boko Haram more dangerous than ever The Telegraph(June 2020)[18][19]
  5. Thanks to coronavirus, Boko Haram is making a comeback, The Independent (April 2020)[20]
  6. How Jihadi Groups in Africa Will Exploit COVID-19, Council on Foreign Relations (April 2020)[21]
  7. The Challenge of Boko Haram Defectors in Chad, War on the Rocks (March 2020)[22]
  8. The Origins of Boko Haram—And Why It Matters, Hudson Institute (January 2020)[23][24]

References

  1. ^ "Audu Bulama Bukarti". Institute for Global Change.
  2. ^ "Bulama Bukarti". www.csis.org.
  3. ^ "Minister to Bulama Bukarti: Bandits have been degraded". Daily Trust. 17 November 2020.
  4. ^ "Gunmen kidnap at least 20 boys from Nigerian boarding school". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2021-06-08.
  5. ^ Parkinson, Drew Hinshaw and Joe (2021-05-21). "WSJ News Exclusive | Boko Haram Leader, Responsible for Chibok Schoolgirl Kidnappings, Dies". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2021-06-08.
  6. ^ Maclean, Ruth; Alfa, Ismail (2021-05-21). "Nigerian Terrorist Leader 'Dies' Again. Was This the End of His 9th Life?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-06-08.
  7. ^ "Shekau threatens Nigerian analyst at Tony Blair Institute". The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News. 2019-11-13. Retrieved 2021-06-08.
  8. ^ "Human Rights Workshop: Scholars Consider Role of Policing in Light of #EndSARS". law.yale.edu.
  9. ^ "Lauya mai ceton al'umma kyauta a Kano | DW | 02.03.2016". DW.COM.
  10. ^ ""Di truth be say pipo don reach boiling point for northern region of Nigeria"". BBC News Pidgin. Retrieved 2021-06-08.
  11. ^ "Tattaunawar Barister Bulama Bukarti da Barrister Mai Nasara Umar kan batun zaben". BBC News Hausa (in Hausa). 2019-03-12. Retrieved 2021-06-08.
  12. ^ Welle (www.dw.com), Deutsche. "Tattaunawa da Audu Bulama Bukarti kan tabarbarewar tsaro a Najeriya | DW | 30.11.2020". DW.COM (in Hausa). Retrieved 2021-06-08.
  13. ^ https://www.chathamhouse.org/sites/default/files/publications/research/FINAL%20REPORT.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  14. ^ "The most worrying aspect of the Kankara kidnapping". February 17, 2021.
  15. ^ "The most worrying aspect of the Kankara kidnapping". Institute for Global Change. Retrieved 2021-06-08.
  16. ^ Bukarti, Audu Bulama. "The West in African Violent Extremists' Discourse - by Audu Bulama Bukarti". www.hudson.org.
  17. ^ "The Mozambique Conflict and Deteriorating Security Situation". Institute for Global Change.
  18. ^ Bukarti, Bulama (June 7, 2020). "A deadly alliance: coronavirus makes Boko Haram more dangerous than ever". The Telegraph – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
  19. ^ "A deadly alliance: coronavirus makes Boko Haram more dangerous than ever". Institute for Global Change.
  20. ^ "Opinion: Thanks to coronavirus, Boko Haram is making a comeback". The Independent. April 17, 2020.
  21. ^ https://institute.global/policy/how-jihadi-groups-africa-will-exploit-covid-19 April 2020
  22. ^ "The Challenge of Boko Haram Defectors in Chad". Institute for Global Change.
  23. ^ "The Origins of Boko Haram—And Why It Matters". Institute for Global Change.
  24. ^ Bukarti, Audu Bulama. "The Origins of Boko Haram—And Why It Matters - by Audu Bulama Bukarti". www.hudson.org.
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