Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figure -- List of tables -- Author biographies -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Historicization of religious extremism in Africa -- 2. Conceptual clarification -- 3. Al-Shabaab and Boko Haram movements in East and West Africa -- 4. The Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria -- 5. The threat of Al-Shabaab extremism in Kenya -- 6. Institutional strategies to counter violent religious extremism in Nigeria and Kenya -- 7. African States and violent extremism -- 8. Religious ideology and terrorism in Africa
9. Youth radicalism and violent religious extremism -- 10. Conclusion -- Index