Contemporary Intelligence in Africa

Tshepo Gwatiwa (Macquarie University, Australia)

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English

Routledge
08 August 2024

Peace studies & conflict resolution; Military history; International relations; Military intelligence

Series: Studies in Intelligence

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 Africa (or Horn of), 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 great interest to students of intelligence studies, African politics, security studies, and IR.

Edited by: Tshepo Gwatiwa (Macquarie University Australia)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032429656
ISBN 10: 1032429658
Series: Studies in Intelligence
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 08 August 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Contemporary Intelligence in Africa 2. Towards a Cosmic Theory of African Intelligence: Pathways to a Dialectic Engagement 3. Intelligence Personalization and Politicization in Africa: A Continental Survey 4. Morocco's Intelligence Services and the Makhzen Surveillance System 5. Intelligence Operations During the Transition in the Sudan 6. Intelligence and Counterterrorism in Ghana 7. Intelligence and Countering Terrorism in 'Ungoverned Spaces' in the Sahel Region 8. Intelligence Services and National Security in Nigeria 9. Rebuilding National Intelligence in Post-Conflict Africa: Case of Somalia 10. Towards Humanization of Intelligence and Security Services in the Democratic Republic of Congo 11. The Professionalisation of Intelligence in Africa 12. From Counterinsurgency to Counterterrorism: The Development of Kenya’s National Intelligence Enterprise 13. Law Enforcement Intelligence in Uganda 14. Sharpening the Use of Financial Intelligence to Combat Complex Crimes in Southern Africa 15. The Media and Security Intelligence in Africa: A Complicated Relationship 16. Private Security Intelligence in West Africa: Corporate and Private Sector Intelligence in Nigeria 17. Intelligence in Sub-Saharan African Widlife Protected Areas: Clashing Contemporary Practices and a Prospective Biocentric Strategic Environment Intelligence (BISEINT) Paradigm 18. The Open Conversation on African Intelligence

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).