In Nigeria, where Boko Haram, the fundamentalist Islamist movement, has turned the North of the country into a battleground, certain writers have sensed the danger and produced significant oppositional works. Elnathan John, an eminent novelist, is such an oppositional voice: in his Born on A Tuesday, he delineates the emergent situation, more or less, accurately.       Dantala, the protagonist, is an Almajiri who went to study at Quranic School, and then left the school to join street boys of Kuka tree. When his leader died, Dantala decided to return home to Sokoto and became one of Sheikh Jamal's followers recognizing the modest Islam. The assistant of Sheikh Jamal, Malam Abdul-Nur, was a religious fanatic who thrashed young boys and stole the money of donations. Returning from Saudi Arabia as a leader to new Islamic Movement Abdul-Nur claims to apply “Shari'a" and establishes his own Islamic state calling his followers “Mujahedeen". Dantala is exposed to two different kinds of Islam: the modest and the fanatic ones, however he manages to keep himself away from being absorbed into fanaticism. By the end of the novel fanatics kill Sheikh Jamal and his followers while the city falls into riot.