Abstract:
Following the terror attacks in Nairobi on 7th August 1998, the 9/11 Attacks in
New York and the Kikambala hotel bombings in November 2002, editorial
cartoons in the Kenyan press have come under close scrutiny for their ability to
capture the dominant discourses on ‘the war on terror.’ As expected, Islam,
already seeking to assert itself across the country, has found itself at the core
of a (spatial) discourse on terrorism. Using Lefebvre’s concept of the
production of space (complemented by elements of semiotics) this paper
interrogates the relationship between (social) space in Kenya on one hand and
Islam, the media and terrorism on the other
