Gavin Cawthra critically reviews the logics and approaches that have informed UN peacekeeping interventions on the African Continent. Closer attention is given to the examination of recent interventions in Lybia, the DRC and Côte dIvoire. Cawthra warns that the practice of international peacekeeping through the UN�s global collective security arrangements is in danger of fulfilling elements of the dystopic vision of the world, which British writer George Orwell constructed in his early cold-war novel Nineteen Eighty-Four and where war is peace, freedom is slavery and ignorance is strength. However, the author concludes that we doesnt have to go down this road and that there are progressive and good things for Africa in the new world (dis)order. Peacekeeping on this continent is perhaps more necessary than ever, but has to consider regional security environments and the rights of states and people.