Book Chapters

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

InContemporary Intelligence in Africa, pp. 15–32

2025 · Routledge

Proposes pathways toward a cosmic theory of African intelligence — opening dialectic engagement between continental practice and global intelligence theory.

Eds. Tshepo Gwatiwa.

Intelligence Personalization and Politicization in African Democracies and Hybrid Systems

InContemporary Intelligence in Africa, pp. 33–55

2025 · Routledge

Examines how intelligence personalization and politicization operate across African democracies and hybrid political systems.

Eds. Tshepo Gwatiwa.

The African Union and the United States: The Pursuit of a Strategic Partnership

InAfrican Union and Agenda 2063: The Past, Present and Future, pp. 235–259

2025 · UJ Press

Examines AU–US partnership politics over two decades — how the African Union negotiates strategic collaboration with Washington on security and development amid Agenda 2063 priorities.

Eds. Adeoye O. Akinola, Khabele Matlosa.

DOI: 10.36615/9780906785713-10

The AU's International Partnerships

InThe African Union at 20: Perspectives on Progress, Challenges, and Prospects, pp. 322–338

2023 · Institute for Security Studies

Assesses how the African Union navigates strategic partnerships — balancing continental priorities with external donor and security agendas.

Eds. Wafula Okumu, Andrews Atta-Asamoah.

Botswana's Democratic Rigor Mortis and Freefall

InDominant Parties as Governments in Southern Africa, pp. 21–44

2023 · Konrad Adenauer Foundation

Analyzes Botswana’s long-ruling BDP as a dominant-party system — tracing democratic detachment, inequality, corruption, and pressures on one-party dominance.

Eds. Lesley Blaauw, Dennis U. Zaire.

Civilian Intelligence Services in Botswana: Colonial Legacies and Politicization

InAfrican Intelligence Services: Early Postcolonial and Contemporary Challenges, pp. 189–208

2021 · with Lesego Tsholofelo · Rowman & Littlefield

Historical institutional analysis of Botswana’s intelligence services — from colonial inheritances to contemporary politicisation dynamics.

Eds. Ryan Shaffer.

Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance in AFRICOM Expansionism: Africa in America's 'Panopticon'

InExpanding US Military Command in Africa: Elites, Networks and Grand Strategy, pp. 85–103

2021 · Routledge

Analyses ISR capabilities within AFRICOM’s continental expansion — situating Africa inside a US panopticon of surveillance and command.

Eds. Tshepo Gwatiwa, Justin van der Merwe.

The Economic and Business of US AFRICOM in Africa: Governments, Land Lease, Aid, Corporations and Military Expansion in Djibouti

InExpanding US Military Command in Africa: Elites, Networks and Grand Strategy, pp. 122–142

2021 · with D. Mokoena · Routledge

Maps the economic and business architecture of US AFRICOM presence in Djibouti — land leases, aid, corporations, and military expansion.

Eds. Tshepo Gwatiwa, Justin van der Merwe.

Security: EU Concerns and African Initiatives in Inter-Regional Cooperation

InEurope and Africa: The Long Search for Common Ground, pp. 115–138

2021 · Ledizioni

Examines how security concerns shape EU–Africa relations — conflict, economic security, migration securitisation, and expanded room for African agency in security cooperation.

Eds. Giovanni Carbone.

Peace and Security in the Context of EU–Africa Relations

InThe Routledge Handbook of EU–Africa Relations, pp. 175–187

2020 · with Ueli Staeger · Routledge

Surveys peace and security cooperation within EU–Africa relations — institutional architecture, partnership politics, and the security-development nexus.

Eds. Toni Haastrup, Luís Mah, Niall Duggan.

DOI: 10.4324/9781315170916-17

The African Union as a Foreign Policy Player: African Agency in International Cooperation

InAfrican Foreign Policies: Selecting Signifiers to Explain Agency, pp. 30–51

2020 · Routledge

Positions the African Union as a foreign-policy actor — showing how African agency is exercised through international cooperation frameworks.

Eds. Paul-Henri Bischoff.