AKU - An African Journal of Contemporary Research (AAJCR) (Vol. 4 No. 1, 2023)
POLITICAL WEAPONIZATION OF CHRISTIANITY IN THE NORTH EAST OF NIGERIA: A PROPHETIC THEOLOGICAL RESPONSE
ABSTRACT
Political weaponizing of Christian faith in the north east is the revelation about long time fact of unjust treatment. It is political because the state government uses its tool to suppress the relevance of Christianity in cultural communities of the north east. The purpose of this study is to investigate the experiences of persecution of Christians in North East of Nigeria, their responses to persecution. This paper aims to discuss the large varieties of political weaponization of Christian communities and the silence of the state government to protect the Christian faith. The strategy employed here is deductive and inductive in nature within the context of social exclusion theory.
