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Audu Bulama Bukarti
International strategic analyst
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.