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Published Since: 2020 ISSN 2732-4990 (Print) ISSN 2732-5008 (Online)
Publication Frequency: Bi-annual The journal is indexed by IBSS, Norwegian List, EBSCO and SABINET.

African Journal of Terrorism and Insurgency Research (AJoTIR) Volume 5, Number 1, June 2024

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African Journal of Terrorism and Insurgency Research (AJoTIR) Volume 4, Number 2, December 2023

The history and trajectory of terrorism in Africa is deeply intertwined with the continent's complex socio-political landscape. Added to this labyrinth is the definitional problems associated with the concept of terrorism. Who is really a terrorist? Do they see themselves as terrorists? What are the causes of terrorism in the continent? And what is its trajectory? Terrorism is a problematic concept to define (Schmid, 2023; Kebede, 2021) with no consensus on what it means. Many discussions of the concept even by journals such as this which focus essentially on the concept of terrorism and its related term of insurgency often avoid getting entangled in the definitional controversies surrounding the concept. What seemed to have been a consensus in the literature on terrorism is the aphorism that “one man’s terrorist is another’s freedom fighter” (Bedoun, 2022). In essence terrorists are driven by the causes they espouse and they passionately believe in the rightness of those caus...