"This volume offers a timely and necessary contribution to the scholarly research on Africa's security challenges and helps inform the global community's efforts to secure a better future for the continent."---James Forest, Combating Terrorism Center at West Point<BR><BR>Terrorism in Africa: The Evolving Front in the War on Terror represents a research endeavor aimed at increasing scholarly discourse on the ever-expanding threat of terrorism and terrorist-related violence in the region. It offers the most wide-ranging analysis of the subnational and transnational terrorist groups that have made Africa the second most violent region in the world. Additionally, the book expands the coverage of the multiple dynamics that indicate why terrorist-related violence continues to increase in the region and closes with regional solutions to the threat of terrorism.<BR><BR>This collection of essays offers a comprehensive analysis of the states, terrorist groups, and critical issues that have increased the specter of terrorism in Africa. The study is divided into three themes: (1)the diversity of the terrorist threat among states in the region. (2) the regional dynamics and the local response to terrorism, and (3) regional solutions to the threat of terrorism in Africa.