Interesting read - not the usual Western analyst's understanding of this issue:

A decade ago I visited a Nigerian community devastated by flooding. The US and
Nigerian governments built 400 free houses for them. When I went to the houses, I saw northern children wearing Osama bin Laden hats. What was shocking to me is that US diplomats are aware of the intense anti-American sentiments in northern Nigeria but somehow the US misrepresents this as being “local”.
http://docs.house.gov/meetings/FA/FA...E-20131113.pdf