Not immune to terror
Somalia, Kenya and their neighbouring countries are increasingly being haunted by extremist violence. This essay assesses why this region has become a hotbed of Islamism and why one-dimensional military interventions by external forces have not delivered the desired results. By Emmanuel Kisiangani
In eastern Africa, the Islamic faith has been used for political purposes for a long time. Muslim groups were active in various movements, including the mostly secular liberation struggles against the colonial powers in places such as Tanzania (then Tanganyika), Sudan and Somalia.
In national politics, adherence to a particular faith often defines allegiances and roles in politics. In a short essay of this kind, however, it is impossible to convey the entire complexity of the matter. This essay is, therefore, concerned with a more recent phenomenon of political Islam in eastern Africa: violent extremism, which will be called Islamism here. Its intolerant ideology i
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THE STANDARD By
Philip Mwakio |
February 21st 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
Lofty tours and Safaris and Director of Valentin Investment Company Monika Solanki with her tour vehicle. [Omondi Onyango, Standard]
What comes to mind when you think about tour vehicles? For many, these are sturdy off-road monsters. The kind that approach any terrain with a ‘can-go’ attidude.
What if you turned up for a safari and the vehicle on offer is a vintage 1970’s jeep?
This is exactly what a Mombasa tour firm offers. Vintage tour vehicles manufactured in the 1970s and early 1980s.
Take the big boy of the fleet for instance. A 1984 Toyota Land Cruiser HJ60 aptly nicknamed Bushbaby. It’s storied ‘career’ includes more than a million kilometres and at one time being stolen in Mombasa in 1989 in the morning and being recovered in Moshi, Tanzania, in the late afternoon.