Islamization of West-African Radicalism. Research among the Youths in the Grand Yoff Neighbourhood in Dakar, Senegal
Islamization of West-African Radicalism. Research among the Youths in the Grand Yoff Neighbourhood in Dakar, Senegal
Author(s): Ciprian Gabriel Oros, Romulus OpricăSubject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences, Sociology
Published by: Editura Universitatii Transilvania din Brasov
Keywords: jihad; sharia; anticolonialism; Islam
Summary/Abstract: In order to determine the radicalization level of the Muslim society in West Africa and in order to understand the influence coming over radicalized Africans from Islam fundamentalism exporting countries, we conducted a sociologic survey on a target group consisting of 107 Muslim men, aged between 18 and 45, from the popular neighbourhood Grand Yoff in Dakar, Senegal. We surveyed their religiousness and radicalization in correlation with their attitude towards the West and their behaviour in front of various daily life situations. That is because in one of the poorest regions in the world, political claims mix with the social ones and lead to the emergence of social radicalism, on which the Islam overlaps perfectly.
Journal: Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov, Series VII: Social Sciences and Law
- Issue Year: 11/2018
- Issue No: 1-Suppl
- Page Range: 89-94
- Page Count: 6
- Language: English