Date: November 11, 2010 Time: 15:30-17:00 Place: Room 3A06, Pieter de la Court building, Wassenaarseweg 52,
Leiden. Speakers: Hussein Solomon (Professor in the Department of Political
Sciences at the University of Pretoria)
Abstract: When examining the phenomenon of Islamist radicalization in
Africa, tremendous attention is being placed on the likes of Al Shabaab in
Somalia, Boko Haram in Nigeria and Al Qaeda's North African franchise. Far
too little attention is being paid to Islamist radicalization in South
Africa, which is increasingly playing a key role in global terror networks.
This seminar will seek to examine the sources and trajectories of Islamist
radicalization in South Africa as well as to propose ways to combat this by
examining lessons learned from international practice.
Hussein Solomon is a Professor in the Department of Political Sciences at
the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He is also a Visiting Fellow in
the Mackinder Programme for the Study of Long-Wave Events at the London
School of Economics and Political Science and a Visiting Professor at the
Global Collaboration Centre at Osaka University in Japan.
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