Acknowledgements About the Contributors Introduction - Paul Higate 1. Golden Assemblages: Security and Development in Tanzania's Gold Mines - Rita Abrahamsen and Michael Williams 2. Failed, Fake or Weak State: The Role of Private Security in Somalia - William Reno 3. Private Security Beyond the Private Sector: Community Policing and Secret Societies in Sierra Leone - Peter Albrecht 4. The Underbelly of Global Security: Sierra Leoneans in Iraq - Maya Mynster Christensen 5. Who do you Call? Private Security Policing in Durban, South Africa - Tessa Diphoorn 6. Security Sector Reform as Trojan Horse? New Security Assemblages of Privatised Military Training in Liberia - Marcus Mohlin 7. Political Becoming and Non-State Emergence in Kenya's Security Sector: Mungiki as Security Operator - Jacob Rasmussen 8. Parapluies Politiques: The Everyday Politics of Private Security in the Democratic Republic of the Congo - Peer Schouten Epilogue: African Assemblages of private security - Mats Utas sakriti opis