Terrorism and Colonialism: Through an Indigenous Lens.

• In Event: Resisting Oppressive Systems

Abstract

The occurrence of state and non-state terrorism in post-colonial societies serves to attract the attention of the government, social and political thinkers, academics, and international communities. Various research approaches adopted by the academic community and political thinkers to identify strategies to mitigate terrorism in formerly colonized countries have not been effective at curbing the menace. Through the lens of indigenous knowledge methods and historical qualitative analysis, this study investigates the history of terrorism in Algeria, and Nigeria, by exploring the relationship between colonialism and terrorism in selected postcolonial literature and novelties with the application of Frantz Fanon’s theory of revolutionary decolonization and Akers’s social learning theory. Specifically, the study examined the association between the colonizer, the colonized, and the use of violence in the eras of colonization and decolonization. Findings indicate that violent colonial antecedents are significantly correlated with terrorism in post-colonial societies. The findings and implications are addressed in the study

Author

• Doris Krakrafaa-Bestman, Alabama A&M University