Boko Haram

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Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Hausa boko (“fake, often said of Western education”) + haram (“forbidden”) (from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Arabic حَرَام (ḥarām). Literally "western education is forbidden".

Proper noun

Boko Haram

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