Can someone with more familiarity with the culture tell me whether Boko Haram really translates to "Book Learnin' Is the Work of the Devil"?
@womzilla i can at least tell you boko:book is a false cognate, boko means something like "nonsense" but has acquired specific connotation
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@chaosprime Per wikipedia, "boko" is "fake" in the sense of keeping up false appearances and in this context means "Western education". -
@womzilla yeah, like people have been talking about Western education as boko for long enough that by now they know what boko you mean
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