This edited collection explores African intelligence services from both scholarly and professional perspectives.

Ryan Shaffer is a historian with expertise on political violence and security. He has written for international magazines, including Reader's Digest and Homeland Security Today, and his academic research has appeared in journals, such as Intelligence and National Security and the Journal of Intelligence History. Shaffer is the author of Music, Youth and International Links in Post-War British Fascism: The Transformation of Extremism.

Introduction, Ryan Shaffer

1. The More Things Change: Kenya's Special Branch During the Decade of Independence, Ryan Shaffer

2. Intelligence, Decolonization and Non-Alignment in Zanzibar and Tanganyika, 1962-1972, Simon Graham

3. Soviet Bloc Security Services and the Birth of New Intelligence Communities in Mozambique and Angola, Owen Sirrs

4. Intelligence in Counterinsurgency: Lessons from the Rhodesian Experience, Glenn A. Cross

5. The Role of the Forces armées rwandaises Intelligence Services and Parallel Power Structures During the Rwandan Struggle for Liberation, John Burton Kegel

6. Intelligence and Political Power in Neo-Patrimonial Systems: Theory and Evidence from Liberia, Benjamin J. Spatz and Alex Bollfrass

7. The Sudanese Intelligence Services Between Continuity and Disruption, Joseph Fitsanakis and Shannon Brophy

8. Civilian Intelligence Services in Botswana: Colonial Legacies and Politicization of the Directorate of Intelligence and Security, Tshepo Gwatiwa and Lesego Tsholofelo

9. Knowledge Is Power, But Power Corrupts: Reassessing the Role of Intelligence in South Africa's Wars, Politics and Society, 1965-2020, Kevin A. O'Brien

10. The Challenge of Effective Intelligence in Nigerian Post-Military Rule, Ibikunle Adeakin

11. Meeting the Needs of the State: Intelligence, Security and Police Legal Frameworks in East Africa, Christopher E. Bailey