By Monica Mark
When Islamist militants set off two bombs that killed 123 people in Nigeria’s volatile city of Jos on Tuesday, many feared it would also detonate bloody reprisals in one of Africa’s most religiously tense cities. Umar Tijani, a Muslim, barricaded himself indoors, haunted by memories of seeing a mob bludgeon six youths to death four years ago when Christmas Day bombs pushed the city into a frenzy of killing.
But this time, the youths who gathered in Jos’s winding hillside streets were not out for blood; they went hoping to prevent more being spilled.
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