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Podcast: The Lede
Episode: Inside Nigeria’s Bandit Crisis - with James Barnett and Rasha Elass
Description: James Barnett is a Fulbright scholar and a researcher at the Center for Democracy and Development in Nigeria. In this podcast he joins New Lines Magazine's Rasha Elass to talk about how he became interested in the underreported crisis of Nigeria’s bandits, how he managed to convince the warlords to talk to him, and what it was like to sit down with such dangerous men.