Bulama's research focuses on violent extremist groups in sub-Saharan Africa. He has studied extremist groups in Africa for over a decade and has written many papers, commentaries, and op-eds on extremist groups’ history, ideology, and strategy; deradicalization and reintegration of former fighters; and response to COVID-19, including for Foreign Policy, the Independent, the Telegraph, CNN, the Council on Foreign Relations, Hudson Institute, the National, and War on the Rocks. He has been cited several times each in The Washington Post,[4] The Wall Street Journal,[5] The New York Times,[6] The Guardian,[7] The Telegraph, and Reuters, among others. He has granted interviews various outlets of BBC World Service, Sky News, France 24, Voice of America, Al Jazeera TRT World and a host of others.
Early life and education
Bulama was born in Bukarti town of Yobe State, Nigeria, he started his education in Bukarti Primary School, Yobe, he obtained his Nigeria Certificate in Education (NCE) in 2005, from College of Education Gashua, Nigeria. he attended Bayero University, Kano between 2006 and 2011 where he obtained Bachelor of Laws (Common & Islamic Law); at Second Class Upper grade he went to Nigerian Law School where he was trained as Legal Practitioner and he was called to bar in 2012.
Bulama started his career as Assistant Senior Accounts Officer II at Karasuwa Local Government of Yobe State where he worked for ten years that is from 2003 to 2013
in 2014 Bukarti became Lecturer at Bayero University, Kano under the department of Law up to 2018 in 2017 Bulama joined Tony Blair Institute for Global Change as Sub-Saharan Africa Analyst, he is a Human Rights and Employment Legal Practice[8][9]