In recent years, competition from Asia has weakened the north’s once-prosperous textile industry, leaving thousands unemployed; drought has devastated the region’s agriculture; and the service sector has remained underdeveloped. Millions of impoverished, unemployed young people now seek an alternative, which Boko Haram, with its incendiary rhetoric blaming the country’s leaders for the population’s troubles, can provide.
最近几年来，来自亚洲的竞争削弱了曾经繁荣的北方纺织业，导致成千上万人失业；干旱摧毁了该地区的农业；服务部门也得不到发展。数百万穷困失业年轻人正在寻求另类活路，而这正是猛烈抨击国家领导人乃是全人口麻烦的罪魁的博科圣地可以提供的。成千上万人涌向博科圣地的募集中心，博科圣地从不缺乏志愿战士来维持其与尼日利亚政府的消耗战。