Safiyya and Adamah: Punishing adultery with sharia stones in twenty‐first‐century Nigeria

In the year 2000, a new phase of the dysfunctional power of religion exploded into the modern public space in Nigeria. Some regional states in the north of the country exploited a loophole in the 1999 constitution to declare themselves as sharia states. Debate on the constitutional legality, politic...

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