Since Africa hosts seven of the UN’s 14 peacekeeping operations and furnishes almost half of the UN’s 89,986 uniformed peacekeepers , this creates a series of borderlands within which both traditional and non-traditional African diplomats operate. This chapter reviews the dynamics ‘peopling’ these borderlands, mapping where African and global orders interact to empower particular African individuals to act – either formally or informally, and with varying degrees of power – as diplomats who help shape UN peacekeeping operations. It highlights the agency of African diplomats in the politics of mandating peacekeeping operations, which occurs at UN Headquarters in New York. In UN peacekeeping operations in Africa, African diplomats are typically present among the mission’s international personnel, its national staff, and its interlocutors in the host state. The global UN peacekeeping order significantly shapes the number and role of African personnel in a mission.