The edited volume examines contemporary intelligence and tradecraft in Africa.
The work offers a timely and empirically grounded account of African intelligence. It provides a multi-contributor narrative that explains contemporary dynamics without discounting historical and external influences, as well as explaining systemic dynamics borne by African agency. The volume features chapters on different issues and themes in intelligence studies, which include but are not limited to: intelligence politicization; covert operations and subversion during political transitions; institutionalizing intelligence in post-conflict states; intelligence and counterterrorism; financial intelligence and complex crimes; intelligence professionalization; media and intelligence; intelligence humanization; environmental intelligence; and others. The volume is geographically representative and features case studies from the five regions of Africa: North Africa (the Maghreb), East (or Horn of) Africa, Central Africa, West Africa, and Southern Africa. Without following a specific theoretical orientation, the book also aims to start a conversation around the prospects for a theory for African intelligence, with the various chapters paying attention to the political, social, and economic nuances that have a bearing on contemporary intelligence in Africa.
This book will be of much interest to students of intelligence studies, African politics, security studies and International Relations.
1. Contemporary Intelligence in Africa
Tshepo Gwatiwa
2. Towards a Cosmic Theory of African Intelligence: Pathways to a Dialectic Engagement
Tshepo Gwatiwa
3. Intelligence Personalization and Politicization in Africa: A Continental Survey
Tshepo Gwatiwa
4. Morocco's Intelligence Services and the Makhzen Surveillance System
Abdelkader Abderrahmane
5. Intelligence Operations During the Transition in the Sudan
Majak D’Agoot
6. Intelligence and Counterterrorism in Ghana
Patrick Peprah Obuobi
7. Intelligence and Countering Terrorism in 'Ungoverned Spaces' in the Sahel Region
Abdul-Jalilu Ateku
8. Intelligence Services and National Security in Nigeria
Etannibi Alemika
9. Rebuilding National Intelligence in Post-Conflict Africa: Case of Somalia
Zakarie Ahmed Nor Kheyre
10. Towards Humanization of Intelligence and Security Services in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Trésor Maheshe Musole and Jean Paul Mushagalusa Rwabashi
11. The Professionalisation of Intelligence in Africa
Dalene Duvenage
12. From Counterinsurgency to Counterterrorism: The Development of Kenya’s National Intelligence Enterprise
Anthony Manganello
13. Law Enforcement Intelligence in Uganda
Solomon Muchwa Asiimwe
14. Sharpening the Use of Financial Intelligence to Combat Complex Crimes in Southern Africa
Jackson Madzima
15. The Media and Security Intelligence in Africa: A Complicated Relationship
Tapiwa Mafura
16. Private Security Intelligence in West Africa: Corporate and Private Sector Intelligence in Nigeria
Gbolahan Ayodamola
Katherine C. Snow
18. The Open Conversation on African Intelligence
Tshepo Gwatiwa
Biography
Tshepo Gwatiwa is Lecturer in Intelligence Studies at Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia), and Senior Researcher Fellow at the Institute for Pan-African Thought and Conversation (IPATC), University of Johannesburg (South Africa). He is author of The African Union and African Agency in International Politics (2022) and is co-editor of Expanding US Military Command in Africa (2021).
