ABORNE

The following is a list of publications on African borderlands by ABORNE members. For more general lists, please refer to "regional lists".

Africa - General

Asiwaju, A. (2005) ‘The Border Areas Initiative, An In-depth Analysis of Relevant UN, EU, World Bank and ECOWAS Reports, Submitted to UN Office for West Africa, Dakar, July 2005.

Asiwaju, A. (2003/2004) ‘Comparative African History: Prospects and Challenges.’ Special Issue of Afrika Zamani, No. 11 & 12, 6

Asiwaju, A. (2003) ‘Boundaries and African Integration: Essays in Comparative History and Policy Analysis’, Lagos: PANAF Publishing Inc.

Asiwaju, A. (2001) ‘The Implementation of ECOWAS Treaty and Protocols:  The Role of Workers and Civil Society in the Context of a Comparison with the History of the European Union (OATUU Basic Document, OATUU/OTUWA/ECOWAS  Workshop on ECOWAS Treaty and Protocols, Abuja, Jan 25 – 26.

Asiwaju, A. (2000) ‘Fragmentation or Integration:  What Future for African Boundaries’?  in Pratt, M.A. and J.A. Brown, eds. Borderlands Under Stress, London: Kluwer Law International.

Asiwaju, A. (1997) ‘Borders and Border Regions: Focus on Africa, A Comparative and Multidisciplinary Bibliography,’ Nairobi: U.N. Centre for Regional Development Africa Office.

Asiwaju, A.I., Ogun G.O. and Ojukwu E.C.S (eds., 2006) Cross Border Crimes And Community Policing: Prospects and Challenges in Nigeria-Benin Cross-Border Areas of Ogun State. Proccedings of a Nigeria-Benin Binational Workshop, February 24-26, 2006. Imeko: African University Institute.

Nugent, P. (ed). (2007) ‘Citizenship in Africa: Creating Nations, Making Strangers.’ Co-edited with Sara Dorman and Dan Hammett, Leiden: Brill.

Nugent, P. (2004) ‘Africa Since Independence: A Comparative History’, Palgrave
Macmillan.

Nugent, P. and A.I. Asiwaju (eds). (1996) ‘African Boundaries: Barriers, Conduits and Opportunities’, Frances Pinter (Translated into Spanish and published
under the title of ‘Fronteras Africanas:  Barreras, Canales y Opportunidades
by Edicions Bellaterra, Barcelona in 1998)

West Africa

Asiwaju, A. (2004) ‘Frontier in Egba History: Abeokuta, Dahomey and Yewaland in the 19th Century’, Lagos Historical Review, vol. 4: 18-48.

Asiwaju, A. (2003) ‘Cross-Boundary Protest Migrations and Settlements in Colonial West Africa: The Example of the Western Yoruba Astride the Nigeria-Dahomey (Benin) Border’ in Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch, Odile Goerg, Isiaka Mande, Faranirina Rajaonah (eds) Être Étranger et Migrant en Afrique au XXe Siècle: Enjeux Identitaires et Modes d’ Insertion, Paris: L’Harmatan 359 – 374

Asiwaju, A. (2001) ‘West African Transformations: Comparative Impacts of French and British Colonialism,’ Lagos and Oxford: Malthouse Press Ltd.

Evans, M. (2005) 'Insecurity or isolation? Natural resources and
livelihoods in Lower Casamance'. Canadian Journal of African Studies  39(2): 282-312.

Evans, M. (2004) Senegal: Mouvement des forces démocratiques de la Casamance (MFDC). Africa Programme Armed Non-State Actors Project Briefing Paper no. 2 (online at http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/pdf/research/africa/BPmeDec04.pdf). London: Chatham House.

Evans, M. (2003) 'Ni paix ni guerre: the political economy of low-level conflict in the Casamance.' In Collinson, S. (ed.) Power, livelihoods and conflict: case studies in political economy analysis for humanitarian action. Humanitarian Policy Group Report no. 13:  37-52 (online at http://www.odi.org.uk/hpg/papers/bkground_casamance.pdf). London Overseas Development Institute).

Lentz, C. (2003) This is Ghanaian territory: land conflicts on a West African border, American Ethnologist 30 (2): 273–89.
Meagher, K. (2003)‘A Back Door to Globalisation?  Structural   Adjustment, Globalisation and Transborder Trade in West Africa’   Review of African Political Economy 30(95).

Meagher, K. (2001) 'Throwing Out the Baby to Keep the Bathwater:   Informal
Cross-Border Trade and Regional Integration in West Africa’ in Regionalism and
Regional Integration in Africa. A Debate of Current Aspects and Issues, Discussion
Paper 11, Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala.

Miles, W.F.S. (2005) “Development, Not Division: Local versus External Perceptions of the Niger-Nigeria boundary.” Journal of Modern African Studies 43:2 (2005), pp. 297-320.

Miles, W.F.S. (2003) “Shari’a as De-Africanization: Evidence from Hausaland.” Africa Today 50:1,pp. 50-75.

Miles, W.F.S. (1994) Hausaland Divided: Colonialism and Independence in Nigeria and Niger. Cornell University Press.

Miles, W.F.S. (1993) "The Reality and Promise of Partition in Hausaland." In The Nigeria-Niger Transborder Cooperation, edited by A.I. Asiwaju and B.M. Barkindo. Lagos: National Boundary Commission,  pp. 111-121.

Miles, W.F.S. (1991) "Nationalism Versus Ethnic Identity in Sub-Saharan Africa." American Political Science Review 85:2 (June 1991), pp. 393-403 [co-authored with David Rochefort]. Reprinted in Nikolaos Zahariadis, ed., Theory, Case, and Method in Comparative Politics. Fort Worth:Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1997.

Miles, W.F.S. (1987) "Partitioned Royalty: The Evolution of Hausa Chiefs in Nigeria and Niger." The Journal of Modern African Studies 25:2 (1987), pp. 233-258.

Miles, W.F.S. (1986) "Self-Identity, Ethnic Affinity, and National Consciousness: An Example from Rural Hausaland." Ethnic and Racial Studies 9:4 (October, 1986), pp. 427-444.

Nugent, P. (2007) ‘Migracíon, fronteras y creación del Estado: comparación de los
patrones del África Occidentale y del Sur", Nova Africa vol. 20: 7-26.
 
Nugent, P. (2007) (forthcoming). " Cyclical history in the Gambia/Casamance
borderlands: refuge, settlement and Islam from c.1880 to the present",
Journal of African History, 3.
 
Nugent, P. (2005) "Borderland identities in comparative perspective: chieftaincy, religion and belonging along the Ghana-Togo and Senegal-Gambia borders, in Per Hernaes (ed.), The Traditional and the Modern in West African (Ghanaian) History: Case-Studies on Co-existence and Interaction, Trondheim University of Science and Technology.
 
Nugent, P. (2005) "A regional melting-pot: the Ewe and their neighbours in the Ghana-Togo borderlands", pp.29-43 in The Ewe of Togo and Benin, (ed.)
Benjamin Lawrance. Accra: Woeli publishers.
 
Nugent, P. (2004) "Ghana-Togo" in Peter Calvert (ed.) Border and Territorial Disputes of the World. John Harper Publishing: 31-36. 
 
Nugent, P. (2003) Smugglers, Secessionists and Loyal Citizens of the Ghana-Togo Frontier: The Lie of the Borderlands Since 1914. James Currey, Ohio University Press and Sub-Saharan Publishers.
 
Nugent, P. (2000) "A few lesser peoples': the Central Togo Minorities and their Ewe neighbours", in Carola Lentz and Paul Nugent (eds.), Ethnicity in Ghana: The Limits of Invention. Macmillan & St. Martin's Press.
 
Nugent, P. (2000) "The art of dissimulation: smugglers, informers and the Preventive Service along the Ghana-Togo frontier, 1920-1939", in C. Dubois, M. Michel and P. Soumille (eds.) Frontières plurielles, frontières conflictuelles en Afrique subsaharienne. L'Harmattan.
 
Nugent, P. and Lentz, C. (2000) Ethnicity in Ghana: The Limits of Invention. Macmillan & St.Martin's Press.
 
 
Central Africa

Gordon, D. (2006) ‘Nachituti's Gift: Economy, Society and Environment in Central Africa,’ Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.

Gordon, D. (2001) ‘Owners of the Land and Lunda Lords: Colonial Chiefs in the
Borderlands of Northern Rhodesia and the Belgian Congo,’ International
Journal of African Historical Studies  34(2): 315-37.

Roitman, J. (forthcoming) ‘A Successful Life in the Illegal Realm: Smugglers and Road Bandits in the Chad Basin’ in P. Geschiere, B. Meyer, P. Pels, eds., Readings on Modernity in Africa. IAI-James Currey-Indiana University Press.
 
Roitman, J. (2007) ‘The Right to Tax: Economic Citizenship in the Chad Basin’, special issue of Citizenship Studies edited by Andrew Gordon and Trevor Stack, vol. 2, no. 2, May.
 
Roitman, J. (2006) ‘The Ethics of Illegality in the Chad Basin’ in Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff (eds.) Law and Disorder in the Postcolony, University of Chicago Press.
 
Roitman, J. (2005) Fiscal Disobedience: An Anthropology of Economic Regulation in Central Africa, Princeton University Press.
 
Roitman, J. (2005) ‘Modes of Governing : the Garrison-Entrepot’ in A. Ong and S. Collier, eds. Global Anthropology: Technology, Politics, and Ethics as Athnropological Problems, Blackwell.
 
Roitman, J. (2004) ‘Les recompositions du bassin du lac Tchad’, Politique africaine 94, June: 7-22.
 
Roitman, J. (2004) ‘Power is not Sovereign: The Transformation of Regulatory Authority in the Chad Basin’, in B. Hibou, ed. The Privatisation of the State, London, Hurst.
 
Roitman, J. (2004) ‘Productivity in the Margins: the Reconstitution of State Power in the Chad Basin’, in D. Poole et V. Das, eds., Anthropology at the Margins of the State, Santa Fe, School of American Research Press.
 
Roitman, J. (2003)’Unsanctioned Wealth; or, the Productivity of Debt in Northern Cameroon’, Public Culture 15, 2:211-237.
 
Roitman, J. (2001) ‘New Sovereigns?   Regulatory Authority in the Chad Basin’, in T. Callaghy, R. Kassimir, and R. Latham, eds., Intervention and Transnationalism in Africa : Global-Local Networks of Power, Cambridge University Press: 240-263.
 
Roitman, J. (2001) ‘Être ‘Off-Shore’: l’immersion de la Guinée Équatoriale dans les enjeux régionaux et internationaux’, Politique
africaine, 80, March:121-142.
 

East Africa and the Horn

James, W. (2007) ‘War and Survival in Sudan’s Frontierlands: Voices from the Blue Nile’, Oxford: OUP- in press.

James, W. (2002) ‘No place to hide: flag-waving on the western frontier’, in James, W., D.L. Donham, E. Kurimoto and A. Triulzi (eds) Remapping Ethiopia: Socialism and After.

James, W. (2001)‘“People-friendly” projects and practical realities: some contradictions on the Sudan-Ethiopian border’, in M-B. Johannsen & N. Kastfelt (eds.),  Sudanese Society in the Context of Civil War (Copenhagen: University of Copenhagen North/South Priority Research Area, Centre of African Studies: 29-47.

James, W. (2000)‘The Multiple Voices of Sudanese Airspace’, in R. Fardon and G. Furniss (eds.),  African Broadcast Cultures, Oxford: James Currey Publishers: 198-215.

James, W. (2000) ‘Beyond the first encounter: transformations of “the field” in North East Africa’, in P. Dresch, W. James and D. Parkin (eds.), Anthropologists in a wider world: essays on field research, Oxford: Berghahn: 69-90. 

Johnson, D.H. et al (2005), ‘Report of the Abyei Boundaries Commission’, (Online at http://www.sudanarchive.net/cgi-bin/sudan?a=d&d=Dl1d18).

Johnson, D.H (2000). ‘Conquest and colonisation: soldier settlers in the Sudan and Uganda’, [Sudan Notes & Records, NS 4: 59-79.]

Little, P.D. (2007)   ‘Unofficial Cross-Border Trade in East Africa’,  Workshop on Staple Food Trade and Market Policy Options for Promoting Development in Eastern and Southern Africa, UN Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome, March 1-2,
http://www.fao.org/es/esc/common/ecg/110973_en_LITTLE_Final_Cross_Border_Trade_Food_SEC_FAO_FINAL_May9_2007.pdf  )

Little, P.D. (2006) ‘Working Across Borders:  Methodological and Policy Challenges of Cross-Border Livestock Trade in the Horn of Africa’, in  McPeak, John and Peter D. Little, eds., Pastoral Livestock Marketing in Eastern Africa: Research and Policy Challenges, Warwickshire, UK: ITDG Publications.

Little, P.D. (2005) ‘Pastoralism in a Stateless Environment:  The Case of the Southern Somali Borderlands’, Geography Research Forum 25 (December Issue): 128-147.

Little, P.D. (2005) ‘Unofficial Trade When States are Weak: The Case of Cross-Border Commerce in the Horn of Africa’  Research Paper No. 2005/13 World Institute for Development Economics Research, United Nations University, Helsinki, Finland.

Little, Peter D. 2003    Somalia: Economy Without State.   Oxford, UK:  James Currey Publishers; Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press

Southern Africa

Brambilla, Chiara (2007), "Borders and Identities/Border Identities: the Angola-Namibia Border and the Plurivocality of the Kwanyama Identity”, in: Journal of Borderlands Studies, vol. 22, n. 2, Fall 2007, pp. 21-38.

Brambilla, Chiara (2007), Voci di frontiera: borderscape creativi e geografie pluriversali. Il caso della frontiera Angola/Namibia e l’identità kwanyama", in: Afriche e Orienti, 3-4/07.

Dobler, Gregor (2005): South-South business relations in practice:. Chinese merchants in Oshikango, Namibia. Draft version:  http://www.ids.ac.uk/asiandriverpdfs/Dobler_Chinese.pdf

Hughes, D. M. (2006). ‘From Enslavement to Environmentalism:
Politics on a Southern African Frontier’, Seattle: University of Washington
Press and Harare: Weaver Press.

Tornimbeni , C. (2005) "The State, Labour Migration and the Transnational Discourse – A Historical Perspective from Mozambique", in Veronika Bilger, Albert Kraler (eds.), African Migrations. Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Dynamics, Stichproben. Wiener Zeitschrift für kritische Afrikastudien/Vienna Journal of African Studies, special issue, n. 8/2005, Wien, 2005

Tornimbeni , C (2005). "Migrant Workers and State Boundaries. Reflections on the Transnational Debate from the Colonial Past in Mozambique", Lusotopie 2004, CEAN, Karthala, Bordeaux.

Tornimbeni , C. (2007) ""O cadastro vivo da memória". Community mapping, conservation and state-making in Mozambique", in C. Tornimbeni and M. Zamponi (eds.), Competing Rights. Land and Natural Resources in Africa. afriche e orienti, Special Issue I.

Tornimbeni , C (2007). ""Isto foi sempre assim". The Politics of Land and Human Mobility in Chimanimani, central Mozambique", Journal of Southern African Studies, vol. 33, n. 3

Zeller, W. (2007): Chiefs, Policing and Vigilantes: “Cleaning up” the Caprivi Borderland of Namibia, in Lars Buur and Helene Maria Kyed (eds.): A New Dawn for Traditional Authorities? State Recognition and Democratization in Sub-Saharan Africa, Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan.

Zeller, W. (2007): “Now we are a Town”: Chiefs, Investors and the State in Zambia’s Western Province, in Lars Buur and Helene Maria Kyed (eds.): A New Dawn for Traditional Authorities? State Recognition and Democratization in Sub-Saharan Africa, Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan.

Zeller, W. &  Kangumu, B.K. (forthcoming October 2007). ‘From Apartheid Bantustan to Namibia's Socio-economic Tail-Light: Caprivi Under Old and New Indirect Rule’, in Henning Melber (ed.): Transitions in Namibia. Which change for whom?, Uppsala: Nordic Africa Institute.
 

Comparative: Africa and Other Regions

Asiwaju, A. (2004) ‘Transfrontier Regionalism: The European Union Perspective On Post-Colonial Africa with Special Reference to Borg’ in Heather Nicol and Ian Townsend - Gault eds. Holding the Line: Borders in a Global World, Vancouver: University of British Colombia Press, 119 - 141

Kramsch, Olivier T. and Chiara Brambilla (2007), “Transboundary Europe through a West African Looking Glass: Cross Border Integration, ‘Colonial Difference’ and the Chance for ‘Border Thinking’", in: Comparativ | Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaft, 17, Heft 4, pp. 95-115.

Miles, W.F.S. (2008) "Legacies of Anglo-French Colonial Borders: A West African and Southeast Asian Comparison."  Journal of Borderland Studies 23 (2): 83-102.