Davies Papers - Africa Series #3 ready for download

The DDMI is pleased to announce the release of the 3rd paper in the Africa Series of The Davies Papers. The paper is written by Daniel E. Agbiboa, doctoral candidate at the University of Oxford, and is entitled 'The Westgate Terrorist Attack and the Transformation of Al-Shabab: A Global Jihadist Perspective.'

Agbiboa's Davies Paper - Africa Series No. 3 on the 'Westgate Terrorist Attack' can be downloaded directly, or you can visit the DDMI 'The Davies Papers' webpage that lists all published Davies Papers.

The abstract of Agbiboa's paper is: 'This paper is based on theoretically-informed empirical research on the recent Westgate attack in Kenya for which Al-Shabab, the Somali-based and Al-Qaeda-linked Islamist terrorist organisation, has since claimed responsibility. It presents research that accounts for the transformation of Al-Shabab from a mainly nationalist organisation with a localised agenda into a movement that conducts the kind of coordinated and sophisticated attacks recently witnessed at the Westgate Mall in Kenya’s capital Nairobi, building upon previously published work by the author. The argument presented is that to understand the transformation of Al-Shabab, one has to consider how the group came to be incorporated within a global jihadist movement by Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.'