African countries enacted several cyber security laws to deal with insecurities in network infrastructures and computers as a way of mitigating cyber-attacks caused by malware intrusion, hackers, criminal fraudsters, extremists’ groups, cyber espionage actors among others. This paper argues that cyber threats are often shrouded in a cloud of speculative semantics worsened by the ambiguity in definitions of security issues with terminologies that raises alarm and dramatizes security issues. The article examines the discursive constructions of security issues within the context of three major cyber security threat framing i.e. the technical, crime-espionage and civil defense discourse to inform the arguments that Security issues in Africa has been highly politicized based on fears, risks and assumptions outside the normal realities of an existential threat.