Born on a Tuesday

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The book ‘Born on Tuesday’ has been authored by Elnathan. This is a novel that brings home the reality of what is happening in northen Nigeria. News reports of Boko Haram’s atrocities can’t adequately project the reality. Dantala, the prominent character of the novel lives in Bayan Layi, Nigeria and studies in a Sufi Quranic School. Unfortunately, he meets a gang leader Banda and is thrust into a world of fluid rules and casual violence. After the presidential elections were over, Dantala runs away and ends up living in a Salafi mosque. Gradually through the hurdles of adolescence, he embraces salafism as his new benefactor, Sheikh Jamal, reached him. The novel illuminates how the Sheikh deals with the growing jihadist extremism. This is a nuanced novel that elucidates on the rise of radical Islam in Northern Nigeria.