Problems of Security in Africa

Major topics:

(1) Introduction. The notions of security and human security. Africa’s new and emerging security challenges, including narcotics trade, trafficking, cyber crimes

(2) Terrorism in Africa, radical groups, terrorist groups and activities

(3) Armed conflicts, regional and continent-wide programmes and mechanisms, including the AU African Peace and Security Architecture

(4) Providing security, keeping and maintaining peace. African capacities, commitments, frameworks

(5) Land-related security issues, dispossession, land grabbing. Teamwork 1

(6) Food security and water-related security issues. Teamwork 2

(7) Diseases and health security. Teamwork 3

(8) Security challenges and urban development, urbanization in Africa

(9) Security of minorities, people with disabilities. The case of people with albinism in Tanzania

(10) How to secure a new image of Africa (Africa Rising)? Investment, connectivity, integration into global structures in light of Moïsi’s “geopolitics of emotions”. Final quiz (45’)

(1)–(2)

 Aning, Kwesi (2011): Identifying and Responding to Africa’s Security Challenges. In: Crocker, Chester A. – Hampson, Fen Osler – Aall, Pamela (eds.): Rewiring Regional Security in a Fragmented World. Washington, D.C.: United States Institute of Peace Press. pp. 149-170.

 Reveron, Derek S. – Mahoney-Norris, Kathleen A. (2011): Human Security in a Borderless World. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. pp. 1-34. (Ch. 1.)

 Diskaya, Ali (2013): Towards a Critical Securitization Theory: The Copenhagen and Aberystwyth Schools of Security Studies. Download from: https://www.e-ir.info/pdf/32981

 Deegan, Heather (2009): Africa Today. Culture, economics, religion, security. London – New York: Routledge. pp. 182-197. (Ch. 9.)

(3)–(4)

 Gebrewold, Belachew (2010): The Cynicism of “African Solutions for African Problems”. African Security, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 80-103.

 Harmon, Stephen (2015): Securitization Initiatives in the Sahara-Sahel Region in the Twenty-first Century. African Security, Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 227-248.

 Captain (SAN) Jamieson, D G (2009): AFRICOM: a threat or an opportunity for African security?. South African Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 311-329.

 Firsing, Scott – Williams, Ogi (2013): Increased Chinese and American defence involvement in Africa. Defense & Security Analysis, 2013 Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 89-103.

(5)–(6)

 Matondi, Prosper B. – Havnevik, Kjell – Beyene, Atakilte (2011): Introduction: biofuels, food security and land grabbing in Africa. In: Matondi, Prosper B. – Havnevik, Kjell – Beyene, Atakilte (eds.): Biofuels, Land Grabbing and Food Security in Africa. London – New York: Zed Books. pp. 1-19.

 Havnevik, Kjell (2011): Grabbing of African lands for energy and food: implications for land rights, food security and smallholders. In: Matondi, Prosper B. – Havnevik, Kjell – Beyene, Atakilte (eds.): Biofuels, Land Grabbing and Food Security in Africa. London – New York: Zed Books. pp. 20-43

 Crush, Jonathan – Rayne, Bruce (2014): Feeding African cities: the growing challenge of urban food insecurity. In: Parnell, Susan – Pieterse, Edgar (eds.): Africa’s Urban Revolution. London – New York: Zed Books. pp. 110-132.

 Ansoms, An – Hilhorst (2014): Causes & Risks of Dispossession & Land Grabbing in the Great Lake Region. In: Ansoms, An – Hilhorst (eds.): Losing Your Land. Dispossession in the Great Lakes. Suffolk – Rochester, NY: James Currey. pp. 1-10.

 Mthamo, Lwando – Mkhize, Mbekezeli (2019): Indian land acquisitions in Ethiopia: a wolf in sheep’s clothing? In: Van de Merwe, Justin – Bond, Patrick – Dodd, Nicole (eds.): BRICS and Resistance in Africa. Contention, Assimilation and Co-optation. London – New York: Zed Books. pp. 207-222.

(7)–(8)–(9)

 UN HABITAT (2014): The State of African Cities Report. Download from here: https://www.gwp.org/globalassets/global/toolbox/references/the-state-of-african-cities-2014_re-imagining-sustainable-urban-transitions-un-habitat-2014.pdf

 Honwana, Alcinda (2013): Changing patterns of intimacy among young people in Africa. In: Engel, Ulf – Ramos, Manuel Joao (eds.): African Dynamics in a Multipolar World. Leiden – Boston: BRILL. pp. 29-50.

 Brocco, Giorgio (2016): Albinism, stigma, subjectivity and global-local discourses in Tanzania. Anthropology & Medicine, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 229-243.

 Carrier, Neil (2016): Little Mogadishu. Eastleigh, Nairobi’s Global Somali Hub. London: Hurst & Company. pp. 27-56.

 Kirigia, Joses Muthuri – Barry, Saidou Pathe (2018): Health challenges in Africa and the way forward. International Archives of Medicine, 2008, Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 1-3. Download from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2615747/pdf/1755-7682-1-27.pdf

(10)

 Moïsi, Dominique (2010): The Geopolitics of Emotion. How Cultures of Fear, Humiliation and Hope Are Reshaping the World. New York: Anchor Books, pp. 1-8., 9-29.

 AfDB (2018): Africa-to-Africa Investment. A First Look. Report. Download from: https://www.afdb.org/fileadmin/uploads/afdb/Documents/Generic-Documents/Africa-To-Africa_Investment-A_First_Look.pdf

 Paduano, Stephen (2020): Boris Johnson’s New Scramble for Africa. Foreign Policy, January 29, 2020. Download from: https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/29/boris-johnsons-new-scramble-for-africa/#