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African Boundaries - Barriers, Conduits and Opportunities (Hardcover)
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African Boundaries - Barriers, Conduits and Opportunities (Hardcover)
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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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