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Transborder Pastoral Nomadism and Human Security in Africa: Focus on West Africa book cover

1st Edition

Transborder Pastoral Nomadism and Human Security in Africa Focus on West Africa

Edited By Richard Olaniyan, Olukayode A. Faleye, Inocent Moyo Copyright 2022
122 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

122 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

122 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India
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This book examines the nexus between political borders, pastoral nomadism, and human security in Africa. It uses a host of applied interdisciplinary insights to analyse social, political, and cultural processes, circumstances, and consequences to showcase the human security crisis in the context of climate change, inter-group relations, leadership strategies, institutions, and governance within... Read more

1. Introduction

Richard A. Olaniyan, Olukayode A. Faleye, and Inocent Moyo

 

PART I: REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES

2. The Political Economy of Herdsmen-Farmers Conflicts in West Africa

Opeyemi I. Aluko

 

3. Farmers-Pastoralist Conflicts in the Sahel Region of West Africa: The Scarcity-Migration Perspective

Emmanuel T. Akov and Samuel Asua

 

4. Population Pressure, Urbanisation and Nomadic Pastoral Violence in West Africa

Afamefuna S. Ogbette

 

PART II: FOCUS ON NIGERIA

5. Nomadic Pastoralism and Social Conflict in the Third-Generation Nigerian Poetry

Solomon Awuzie

 

6. Herdsmen-Farmers Conflict in Nigeria: A Threat to National Development

Kwagha Beetseh and Markyaah Nongo 

 

7. Transborder Nomadic Banditry and Degraded Democracy in Nigeria

Dawood O. Egbefo and Sunday F. Babalola

 

PART III: INSIGHTS FROM GHANA

8. Drivers of ‘Labour’ Migration of Fulani Herders to Ghana

Kaderi Noagah Bukari and  Patrick Osei-Kufuor

 

9. Conclusion

Richard A. Olaniyan, Olukayode A. Faleye, and Inocent Moyo

 

Biography

Richard A. Olaniyan was for many years a Professor of History and International Relations at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria where he served as Dean of Arts. He is a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Letters (FNAL).

Olukayode A. Faleye is Senior Lecturer in History and International Studies at Edo State University, Uzairue, Nigeria.

Inocent Moyo is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography and Environmental Studies at University of Zululand, South Africa.

 

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