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Genesis of cyberstrategy and the need for an African cyberstrategy

The literature on cyberstrategy is growing, but Africans are notably absent from it. Time to fix that.

Djimgou Ngameni1 min read
Genesis of cyberstrategy and the need for an African cyberstrategy

Cyberstrategy has become a new pillar of classical strategy, alongside land, sea, air and space. Its genealogy remains dominated by Western and Asian powers.

This African absence is not merely academic: it deprives the continent of a conceptual framework suited to its own threats, resources and ambitions.

Developing an African cyberstrategy means producing an endogenous corpus rather than importing doctrines designed for other realities.

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