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Assessing the different kinds of borders between African nations, the contributors present a borderland and trans-region approach to understanding the challenges and opportunities facing the peoples of the African continent. Africa faces rampant violence, terrorism, deterioration of water-energy-food provision, influxes of refugees and immigrants, and religious hatred under the trends of globalization. Solutions for these issues require new perspectives that are not attempted by conventional state-building approaches. Statehood is limited in many places on the African continent because many states are combined by loose political ties. African states’ borders tend to be regarded as porous and fragile. However, as the contributors to this volume argue, those porous borders can contribute to cultural and socio-economic network construction beyond states and the creation of active borderlands by increasing people’s mobility, contact, and trade. A must read for scholars of African studies that will also be of great value to academics and students with a broader interest in nationhood, globalization, and borders.

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Author:   Yuichi Sasaoka (Meiji University, Japan) ,  Aimé Raoul Sumo Tayo (Center for Str. Studies and Innovations, Cameroon) ,  Sayoko Uesu (Nat. Grad. Inst. for Pol. Research (GRIPS), Japan)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781032064345

ISBN 10:   103206434
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   25 September 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1. New Perspectives on the African State Borders 2. From Contested Borders to Cross-border Cooperation in the Lake Chad Basin: Stakes and Challenges 3. A Porous Border and Economic Activity in the Kampala Kinshasa Market, West Nile, Northwestern Uganda 4. Cross-Border Refugee Crisis and Local Governments in the West Nile Region, Uganda 5. Mobility as a Culture in rural Africa 6. Micro-Regionalism in Southern Africa 7. Transnational Violent Actors in the Borderlands of the Sahel and Challenges for Stabilization: Any role for Japan? 8. Insecurity in the Horn of Africa and IGAD 9. The Hardening of African Borders in the Era of Growing Security Threats and the Global War on Terror 10. Porous Boundaries and Anisotropic Mobility: Migration and Cross-Border Trade between Nigeria and Japan 11. Decentralization and Conflict Prevention in East Africa Conclusion

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Yuichi Sasaoka is a professor in the Graduate School of Governance Studies at Meiji University, Japan. Aimé Raoul Sumo Tayo is a senior researcher at the Center for Strategic Studies and Innovations, Yaoundé, Cameroon. Sayoko Uesu is a research associate at National Graduate Institute for Policy Research (GRIPS), Japan.

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