Identifying Famous People / Groups: Boko Haram in Africa

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Identifying Famous People/Groups
Boko Haram in Africa
Boko Haram is a terrorist militant group founded in 2002 by an enigmatic Imam named Mohammed Yusuf (BBC News). The group has a firm, fundamentalist elucidation of the Quran and believes that the founding of Nigeria by British colonialists imposed a Western and un-Islamic system on Muslim lives. In 2009, Boko Haram launched military operations to create an Islamic State (BBC News). This militant group continues to forbid Muslims from getting involved in any social/political activity linked with the Western society. Such activities include getting a secular education or participating in elections.
Huge Evans with Global citizens
Hugh Evans is the co-founder and CEO at Global Citizen and Global Poverty Project (McKinley Jr.). The vision of Global Citizen is to see a world without abject poverty by 2030. The cruel realities of spending a night in a Manila slum motivated Evans to change the status quo of abject poverty. Through Global Citizen, Evans recruits millions of people in the fight against worldwide poverty. Global Citizen organizes extensive global campaigns that have led to 87 policy announcements and commitments such as an estimated $18.3 billion in cash commitment (McKinley Jr.).
Janet Yellen
Janet Yellen is the head of the Federal Reserve, Washington DC. In 2014, she made history by becoming the first female chair of the Federal Reserve (Forbes.com). Hellen holds a Bachelor of Arts/Science, Brown University and Doctorate from Yale University. For now, she has been making a call to raise congressional control of the Fed whilst pushing to enhance the Fed’s oversight of major banks.
Eric Gardner from New York
Eric Garner is a Staten Island man who pas...