Thomas Marama is praying less often these days.
His faith hasn’t waned, but with the height of the Boko Haram conflict behind him, the Nigerian pastor no longer feels the need to plead to God each time he goes to a crowded market or gets caught in a traffic jam.
“You were always scared that maybe there was going to be an explosion,” Marama told AFP from his church compound in a Maiduguri neighbourhood, where residents used to hear gunshots ring out every night.
Ask a group of people in the Borno State capital which years were the worst of the conflict in northeastern Nigeria, and they’ll all give a slightly different answer: for Marama, it was
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