Why we must embrace cultural terrorists

Britain’s government website on Kenya begins its ‘Terrorism’ section with this: ‘There is a high threat from terrorism in Kenya’. While we might rightly object to specific Travel Advisories, it’s undeniable that terrorist attacks have been relatively frequent in Kenya over recent years, from the Westgate siege to cowardly grenade attacks on matatus and churches. 
Terrorism is a horribly cruel crime.

As gifted Kenyan diplomat Martin Kimani has recently written, terrorism of the sort experienced in Kenya stems from the desire of certain individuals to return to nostalgic, misremembered pasts; it is the abhorrent consequence of fundamentalist thinking, whether this be the religious ideology of any faith, or a narrowly political ideology.