Islamization of West-African Radicalism. Research among the Youths in the Grand Yoff Neighbourhood in Dakar, Senegal

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 neighborhood Grand Yoff in Dakar, Senegal. We surveyed their religiousness and radicalization in correlation with their attitude toward the West and their behavior in front of various daily life situations. That is because, in one of the poorest regions in the world, political claims mix with social ones and lead to the emergence of social radicalism, on which Islam overlaps perfectly.