Fixing Spy Craft to Serve National Interests in Kenya

This book aims to examine and appreciate the critical role that intelligence, or the lack of it, has played in informing the respective policy makers who have fundamentally shaped and mapped the space of land inhabited by indigenous peoples that would eventually be known as Kenya in 1920. The book covers Kenya's journey into the world of security and the critical role that intelligence gathering, collation, and dissemination have played in preparing policy decision makers in government. The book traces the intelligence journey from Colonial times, outlining the challenges faced by the colonial state. Post-independence, the young nation of Kenya inherits, a colonially structured intelligence service that serves the country for several decades. This changes with the appointment of Brigadier (Rtd) Wilson A. C. Boinett, an outsider, to lead the service. He effects change and professionalizes the service, transforming it from the dreaded Colonial Special Branch to a civilian National Security Intelligence Service. This is the story of that amazing transformative journey.