Terrorism In Kenya Since 1990s: A Historical Lens Perspective
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science - Year 2018, Vol 23, Issue 9
Abstract
Terrorism has proved to be a phenomenon that targets human society at all sectors; social, economic, political and religious, to mention a few. It is equally not limited to any particular geographical region; underscoring it as a universal phenomenon. Incidences of terrorism have increased in the last two decades both globally and in Kenya. Just as it is the case with the contemporary global trends, most of the recent terror attacks in Kenya have had religious and ethnic dimensions. This paper examinesterrorism and its attendant incidences in Kenya from a historical lens perspective since the 1990s. Adopting a theoretical position of history as the struggle for liberty, the study acknowledges that what had driven the prior stages of History in general was recognition which often led men to assert themselves in new and unforeseen ways, even to the point of becoming once again bestial. In the same breadth, it is the Position of this Paper that both the past and the present in the context of struggle for liberty, provide a complementary lens in the process of History of terrorism in the contemporary Kenya. Acknowledging that terrorism in general, and in Kenya in particular had transitioned to become more and more complex with an input of many factors both historical and current, the paper submits that political history of nationalism in Kenya still presented one of the best analytical tools with which to understand the religious, ethnic and geographical features as they played out in the increasingly complex nature of terrorism in Kenya since the 1990s.
Authors and Affiliations
Ochienglukesahaya* . , Georgine Anyango Onyango**
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