1st Edition
Routledge Handbook of African Borderlands
SECTION 1
Concepts and methods
Editor: Olivier Walther
1 An introduction to African borderlands
Olivier Walther, Inocent Moyo, and Isabella Soi
2 History and historiography of African borderlands studies
Anthony I. Asiwaju
3 Mapping African borderlands
Olivier Walther, Hugh Lamarque, and Thomas Cantens
4 Doing ethnography in African borderlands
Gregor Dobler
5 Quantifying cross-border trade in Africa
Charles Kunaka and Gaël Raballand
6 African borderlands as resources
Markus Virgil Hoehne and Dereje Feyissa
SECTION 2
Borderlands in African history
Editor: Isabella Soi
7 Colonial partition in Africa
Franceso Moze
8 Myth of border formation in colonial Africa
Jack Paine, Xiaoyan Qiu, and Joan Ricart-Huguet
9 Making African borders from below
Paul Nugent
10 Borders and urbanisation in colonial Africa
Miles Larmer
11 Maritime borders in Africa
Dirk Siebels
SECTION 3
Economic perspectives
Editor: Olivier Walther
12 Regional economic integration in Africa
Bruce Byiers
13 Informal cross-border trade in Africa
Peter D. Little
14 Smuggling and trafficking in Africa
Thomas Hüsken
15 Border markets in Africa
Martin Doevenspeck and Kamal Donko
16 Border cities in Africa
Olivier Walther, Isabella Soi, and Paul Nugent
17 Agro-pastoralists in African borderlands
Abubakar Samaila and Umar Ahmed
SECTION 4
Political issues
Editor: Olivier Walther
18 Secessionism and irredentism in Africa
Lotje de Vries and Mareike Schomerus
19 Post-colonial African border disputes
Lindsay Scorgie
20 Transnational violence and terrorism in Africa
David G. Russell and Olivier Walther
21 African borderland violence in comparative perspective
William F. S. Miles
22 Border technologies, mobility, and trade facilitation in Africa
Ngozi L. Uzomah
SECTION 5
Social perspectives
Editor: Inocent Moyo
23 Contemporary migration in Africa
Philippe M. Frowd
24 Health, HIV/AIDS, and pandemic in African borderlands
Olukayode A. Faleye and Oladotun E. Awosusi
25 Gendered dynamics in African borderlands
Stephanie Cawood and Munyaradzi Mushonga
26 Border festivals in Africa
Edem Adotey
27 Climate mobilities and adaptation in African borderlands
Jabulile Mzimela and Inocent Moyo
SECTION 6
Policy perspectives
Editor: Olivier Walther
28 The African Union perspective on border governance: policy and practices
Mohamadou Abdoul, Haifa Aboubaker, Bakary Sanou, and Sarah Serawitu
29 OECD/SWAC’s support to cross-border cooperation in West Africa
Jennifer Sheahan and Marie Trémolières
30 Switzerland’s contribution to promoting cross-border cooperation in West Africa
François Laurent and Abdel Kader Dicko
Biography
Dr Olivier Walther is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Florida, United States. His research focuses on cross-border trade and transnational armed conflicts in Africa.
Dr Inocent Moyo is SARCHi Research Chair in Borders and the African Continental Free Trade Area and Full Professor at the University of Zululand, South Africa. He researches borders, migration, and the political economy of the informal economy in the Southern African region.
Dr Isabella Soi is Associate Professor of African Studies at the Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Italy. Her research focuses on border issues, refugee movements, and religious and national minorities in Africa, particularly in Uganda.
“This superb book provides essays by the most impressive collection of borderland studies scholars imaginable, both established and up-and-coming authors. The historical, economic, political and societal dimensions of borders are all carefully and insightfully analyzed. Particularly insightful are the new contributions on the making of African boundaries, the contemporary political effects of borders, and issues like smuggling, trade, urbanization and migration. There is no equivalent repository of knowledge on African borderlands anywhere else. A brilliant volume, indispensable for research and for teaching.”
Pierre Englebert, Professor, Pomona College, USA.
“A timely and comprehensive guide to African borderlands. A must-read if you are interested in challenging orthodoxies about colonial borders and keen to leverage the ambivalence of non-statist concepts and practices. This handbook’s novel approach sets the agenda for a new era in border studies.”
Heidi Hudson, Professor, University of the Free State, South Africa.
“This edited volume on African borderlands brings together an impressive range of topics from a rich interdisciplinary perspective. It is an essential collection for anyone engaged in the study of African borders, whether scholars, practitioners, or policy-makers. It will serve as a key reference work on African borderlands for years to come.”
Gillian Mathys, Professor, Ghent University, Belgium.
“This handbook examines Africa’s borders from partition to the present, analysing their impacts on borderlands through a transdisciplinary lens. Moving beyond history and geography, it integrates socio-economic, political, and gender perspectives, foregrounding borders as living, dynamic processes while offering conceptual clarity and methodological guidance for holistic research across African borderlands”.
Samuel Okunade, Doctor, Bowen University, Nigeria.
