Nigeria: Faith, Fear and Fake News – BBC Africa Eye Documentary
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The claim of a "Christian genocide" in Nigeria has shaped US policy and sparked military action, but does the evidence support the narrative? #BBCAfricaEye investigates. Click here to subscribe to our channel 👉🏽 http://bit.ly/subscribetoafrica Nigeria is home to some of the world’s deadliest and most complex conflicts. Insurgencies, banditry, communal tensions and criminality are all on the rise, driven by decades of state failure. Although both Christians and Muslims have died in their thousands, online commentaries have led to an increasingly influential narrative: that Nigeria's Christians are the victims of a coordinated genocide driven solely by religion. Nigeria: Faith, Fear and Fake News investigates how claims of genocide spread from advocacy groups and social media into mainstream political discourse, influencing US policymakers and sparking military action. Filmed in Nigeria’s Middle Belt, “ground zero” of the alleged genocide, this documentary asks a difficult questio
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