African Security

Durable solutions to Africa’s multiple security challenges continue to be elusive. Proposing an insightful conceptual framework, this excellent volume presents deeply nuanced and contextual case studies of key security challenges on the continent. This book will be an invaluable resource for scholars and policymakers attempting to make sense of Africa’s multiple security challenges. — Leonardo A. Villalón, University of Florida

One of the most worrying developments of recent years has been the growing number of African citizens who feel unsafe in their own homes. A solution to this problem is urgently needed if it is not to have dramatic consequences for development and democracy. African Security: Local Issues and Global Connections could therefore hardly be more timely or vital. The fresh insights in this volume go a long way to explaining the most effective ways to enhance security—and, just as importantly, the things to avoid. An important contribution. — Nic Cheeseman, University of Birmingham

This pathbreaking book encapsulates new thinking on how the combination of domestic and externally driven factors both reshape and redefine emerging conflict dynamics in Africa, and underpin new transformations of security and insecurities—aptly framed using the lens of glocalization. It also offers new homegrown options for transcending glocalized African insecurities. — Cyril Obi, African Peacebuilding Network