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African Boundaries : Barriers, Conduits, and Opportunities

Paul Nugent ; A. I. Asiwaju | London [United Kingdom] : Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh | 1996

Part 1 Arcs and lines - myths and realities: it didn't happen at Berlin - politics, economics and ignorance in the setting of Africa's colonial boundaries, Simon Katzenellenbogen arbitrary lines and the people's minds - a dissenting view on colo[...]

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Boundaries, Communities, and State-Making in West Africa : The Centrality of the Margins

Paul Nugent | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | 2019

Border regions are often considered to be the neglected margins. In this book, Paul Nugent argues that through a comparison of the Senegambia and the trans-Volta (Ghana/Togo), we can see that the geographical margins have shaped notional centres[...]

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