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zebra2  ·  3841 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: "Nigeria's Inevitable Mess": War Nerd, March 2013

    “Boko” comes from the English word “book,” as pronounced by the Hausa, the biggest northern ethnic group.

Funny that he says that, since I had just recently read an article talking about how that was misinformation. It seems like he's usually on top of little bits like that.