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title: "The Prevent scheme, fundamentalism in Nigeria, and mourning David Bowie"
date: "2016-03-25T09:42:35+00:00"
modified: "2016-03-25T09:42:35+00:00"
url: "https://newhumanist.org.uk/2016/03/25/the-prevent-scheme-fundamentalism-in-nigeria-and-mourning-david-bowie/"
post_id: 6505
categories: ["Uncategorised"]
---

# The Prevent scheme, fundamentalism in Nigeria, and mourning David Bowie

1\. [Age of extremes](/articles/5001/age-of-extremes)

Is the government’s Prevent strategy a defence against terrorism or a threat to free speech? Samira Shackle reports.

2\. [Beyond Boko Haram: fundamentalism in Nigeria](/articles/5002/beyond-boko-haram-fundamentalism-in-nigeria)

In Africa’s most populous country, strict interpretations of religion are on the rise. Can anything be done about it, asks Chitra Nagarajan?

3\. [Learning to listen: an interview with Shappi Khorsandi](/articles/4999/learning-to-listen-an-interview-with-shappi-khorsandi)

The new president of the British Humanist Association talks to Ariane Sherine about life as a comedian and growing up atheist.

4\. [The authenticity of online grief](/articles/5007/the-authenticity-of-online-grief)

People who mourned David Bowie online were condemned for being self-indulgent, but, says Giovanni Tiso, shared rituals matter.

5\. [Rhyme & reason](/playdice/4531)

200 years ago Percy Bysshe Shelley was expelled from Oxford for publishing ‘The Necessity of Atheism’. In this archive piece from 2014, Jonathan Rée reassesses the romantic poet’s rationalism

[*February’s top long-reads*](/articles/5004/gandhi-in-south-africa-the-appeal-of-makeup-and-sharia-law)

*[More on our Spring issue – out now](/articles/4996/the-spring-2016-new-humanist-is-out-now)*