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African Boundaries - Barriers, Conduits and Opportunities (Hardcover) Loot Price: R7,552
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African Boundaries - Barriers, Conduits and Opportunities (Hardcover): Paul Nugent, A.I. Asiwaju

African Boundaries - Barriers, Conduits and Opportunities (Hardcover)

Paul Nugent, A.I. Asiwaju

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Boundaries are inherently artificial - they interpose barriers between people which do not exist by any fundamental law of human organization. The contrast between the intentions of those who police boundaries and those who are affected by them is part of the paradoxical nature of boundaries throughout the world. In Africa the paradoxes were accentuated, as colonial powers constructed new boundaries for their own purposes, altering the pre-colonial perceptions of the boundary and its functions.;This study discusses the development and function of African boundaries from a multi-disciplinary perspective. Beginning with the historical perspective, the book then considers the impact of boundaries on pastoralists, the use of borders as "cordons sanitaire" against diseases, the perception of political space and the role of borders as places of residence and refuge. The book examines borders in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Liberia and Zaire.;Finally, European comparisons are drawn in order to assess the extent to which African boundaries are unusual, and to make an assessment of their future development.

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Imprint: Frances Pinter Publishers Ltd
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: April 1996
First published: June 1998
Editors: Paul Nugent • A.I. Asiwaju
Dimensions: 234 x 153 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 978-1-85567-372-4
Categories: Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Regional geography
Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Historical geography
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General
Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Human geography > Political geography
LSN: 1-85567-372-X
Barcode: 9781855673724

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