Between Conflict and Compromise: Lessons on Sharia and Pluralism from Nigeria's Kaduna and Kebbi States

Authors

Eyene Okpanachi

Abstract

Utilizing documentary sources and interviews carried out in Kaduna and Kebbi States between 2008 and 2009, this Essay asks the following questions: what forms of discord or compromise emerged over the Sharia policy and what were the implications of these transformations on the dynamics of these states? What is the nature of the citizenship, identity contestations, and conflicts that have ensued over the Sharia policy in these states and how have they been managed or mismanaged? What are the mechanisms instituted or utilized to accommodate differences arising over the implementation of Sharia in these two states, and how does Sharia in these two states interface with the secular state? An analysis of these issues will help us to dispel crude generalizations and totalizing narratives over the Sharia question.

Recommended Citation

Eyene Okpanachi, Between Conflict and Compromise: Lessons on Sharia and Pluralism from Nigeria's Kaduna and Kebbi States, 25 Emory Int'l L. Rev. 897 (2011).
Available at: https://scholarlycommons.law.emory.edu/eilr/vol25/iss2/7