Stephen M. Magu's research focuses on international political economy, economic development, governance and foreign policy issues as relating to Africa. He is the author of Great Powers and US Foreign Policy towards Africa (2019), Peace Corps and Citizen Diplomacy: Soft Power Strategies in U.S. Foreign Policy (2018) and The Socio-Cultural, Ethnic and Historic Foundations of Kenya's Electoral Violence: Democracy on Fire (2018), and co-editor of Corruption Scandals and their Global Impacts (with Omar Hawthorne, 2018).

Chapter 1: The Beginning of a Post-Colonial Foreign Policy in Africa

Chapter 2: Conceptual Approaches to Foreign Policy and Application to African Countries

Chapter 3: Politics of Geography, Statehood, Residual Colonization and Territorial Integrity

Chapter 4: Africa Huru! Complex Events - Cold War, Residual Colonization and Apartheid

Chapter 5: Nation vs. Continent: Sovereignty, Territorial Integrity and Rebellion

Chapter 6: Made in Europe: Breaking Nations, Secession Movements and OAU Responses

Chapter 7: Region or Continent: O/AU Development and Regional Economic Communities

Chapter 8: Between BRICs' Promise and Past Western Trauma: Whither, Africa?

Chapter 9. Africa's Post-Colonial Foreign Policy: Assessing History, Imagining the Future