ABSTRACT
Transnational terrorism in Africa is nurtured and sustained by the interaction of a lack of economic perspectives, social deprivation, a loss of cultural identity, political repression and a dysfunctional state. Poverty and ignorance, disease and environmental disorder, corruption and political oppression provide fertile ground for breeding terrorist networks. The issue of weakness of African states and their proneness to capture by international terrorist networks appears to have been widely viewed as an extension of radical Islamism with its jihadic tendencies. Africa is the weakest political territory to penetrate international terrorists. Terrorist technology and tactics are sensitive to their target political cultures, and have progressed at a rate commensurate with dominant military, commercial, and social technologies. Political terrorism is the systematic use of actual or threatened physical violence in the pursuit of a political objective, to create a general climate of public fear and destabilize a society, and thus influence the population or government policy.
