1st Edition

Contemporary Intelligence in Africa

Edited By Tshepo Gwatiwa Copyright 2025
340 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

340 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

340 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. Contemporary Intelligence in Africa

Tshepo Gwatiwa

2. Towards a Cosmic Theory of African Intelligence: Pathways to a Dialectic Engagement

Tshepo Gwatiwa

3. Intelligence Personalisation and Politicisation in African Democracies and Hybrid Systems

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’Agoôt

6. Intelligence and Counterterrorism in Ghana

Patrick Peprah Obuobi

7. Intelligence and Countering Terrorism in the "Ungoverned Spaces" in the Sahel Region

Abdul-Jalilu Ateku

8. Intelligence Services and National Security in Nigeria

Etannibi E.O. Alemika

9. Rebuilding National Intelligence in Post-Conflict Africa: Case of Somalia

Zakarie Ahmed Nor Kheyre

10. Towards Humanisation of the Intelligence and Security Services in the Democratic Republic of the 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

Tony 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 Raji

17. Intelligence in Wildlife Protected Areas in Sub-Saharan Africa: Clashing Contemporary Practices and a Prospective Future Paradigm for Biocentric Strategic Environmental Intelligence (BISEINT)

Katherine C. Snow

18. The Open Conversation on African Intelligence

Tshepo Gwatiwa

Biography

Tshepo Gwatiwa is a 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 the author of The African Union and African Agency in International Politics (2022) and is co-editor (with Justin van der Merwe) of Expanding US Military Command in Africa: Elites, Networks and Grand Strategy (2021). 

'Contemporary Intelligence in Africa makes an important contribution to the intelligence studies scholarship. Gwatiwa offers an insightful collection of chapters, which provide research on many different aspects of African intelligence, including politicisation, professionalisation, and democratisation...Undoubtedly this book will be an important volume for intelligence and security studies scholars interested in Africa, counterterrorism, insurgency and professionalisation.'

Ryan Shaffer, Intelligence and National Security Vol. 40, No. 2, January 2025