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Elizabeth Dickinson

Elizabeth Dickinson is assistant managing editor at Foreign Policy magazine. She was Nigeria correspondent for The Economist in 2007-2008.

Politics/LawMarch 29, 2010

Politicized Religion Fuels Christian-Muslim Violence In Nigeria

By Elizabeth Dickinson

In a poverty-stricken nation with a failed state and rampant political corruption, the recent violence between Christians and Muslims has been blamed solely on religion. But to a reporter who spent two years covering Nigeria, it’s far more complicated than that.

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