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Transport Corridors in Africa (Paperback)
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Transport Corridors in Africa (Paperback)
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In-depth examination of the inherent tensions and dynamics of
transport corridors in Africa: between short-term optics and
long-term durability; between regional integration and national
interest; between the facilitation of trade and the generation of
corridor revenue. The image of the corridor, a central pathway of
road and rail carving its way through Africa's interior, has guided
the coordination of transport and trade developments on the
continent in recent decades. Existing analysis of the "Corridor" -
a label with a great capacity to change shape, guiding funding and
infrastructural priorities at different times and in different
settings - tends to be presentist, technical, and conveyed in the
language of transport economics. The chapters collected here
showcase a more varied approach, offering perspectives from
academics and policy-makers coming from a range of disciplinary
backgrounds. They capture the varied forms of the corridor concept
(developmental, transport, and trade corridors), the multiplicity
of actors (including China and the European Union), as well as the
different permutations of the infrastructure itself, in corridors
linking coastal states and in others that link coastal states with
the hinterland. The breadth of cases allows for a comparative
perspective of East, West, and Southern Africa, as well as the
basis of comparisons outside of the continent in Europe, South
Asia, and elsewhere. The motivations behind corridor initiatives in
Africa range enormously, from resource extraction to urban
development and poverty reduction. A lot depends on scale, and this
collection places the grand designs thrashed out at continental and
regional economic forums alongside the individual concerns of
drivers and cross-border traders hauling goods across the
continent's checkpoints. What emerges are a number of central
tensions in the study of transport corridors: between short-term
optics and long-term durability; between road and rail as modes of
transportation; between regional integration and national interest;
between the facilitation of trade and the generation of corridor
revenue; between different port configurations; and between local
dynamics and the dynamics of long-distance transportation. This
book is available as Open Access under the Creative Commons license
CC-BY-NC.
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