Jummai Abdullahi - The Peace Maker

What does peace look like when a teacher steps into conflict with books, dialogue and trust instead of guns?

In this episode of Panel 54, Waweru Njoroge sits down with Jummai Abdullahi, a teacher and university lecturer from Maiduguri, Nigeria to examine Borno’s non-kinetic security front.

Her work challenges the idea that counterinsurgency is only about soldiers, weapons and battlefield gains. For her, peace is built through education, trauma support, women’s protection, community dialogue and trusted local institutions.

From displaced children and accelerated learning to radio programmes, NGOs, security agencies and local peace frameworks, this conversation explores how communities recover after insurgency and how education can help stop violence from returning.

The episode also looks at how the United States and other international partners can support locally led peacebuilding through education, research, institutional development and community resilience.

At its core, this is a conversation about the peacemaker, a woman using classrooms, language and trust to build stability where conflict tried to take root.

A sharp discussion on Borno, education, peacebuilding, counterinsurgency, women’s protection, NGOs, security agencies and the non-kinetic side of security in Northern Nigeria and beyond

Lagos to Lamu. Cape Town to Cairo.

This is Panel 54, a global perspective through an African lens.

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🎙 Recorded in NBI kenya 🎧 Produced by Commex Africa and E & C Talent

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