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Banditry, Rural Livelihood Collapse, and the Social Reorganization of Communities in Northwestern Nigeria

Banditry has become a major disruptive force that changes traditional social structures in rural areas of Northwestern Nigeria. The research investigates how banditry operates together with the destruction of rural livelihoods and the resulting transformation of social structures in communities across Katsina and Zamfara and Kaduna and Sokoto States. The research uses a mixed-methods approach that included 250 questionnaires and 36 semi-structured interviews and 12 key informant interviews and focus group discussions and direct field observations to show how banditry evolved into a systematic …