Crossing the Line in Africa Reconsidering and Unlimiting the Limits of Borders within a Contemporary Value / edited by Canute Ambe Ngwa & Mark Bolak Funteh.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Funteh, Mark Bolak, editor.

Ngwa, Canute Ambe, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Territory, National--Africa.

Territory, National.

Boundaries--Social aspects--Africa.

Boundaries.

Boundaries--Africa.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 PDF (xxii, pages) :) illustrations (some color), color maps

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019

Summary:

This book explores a collective understanding of the perception and treatment of borders in Africa. The notion of boundary is universal as boundaries are also an important part of human social organization. Through the ages, boundaries have remained the container by which national space is delineated and contained. For as long as there has been human society based on territoriality and space, there have been boundaries. With their dual character of exclusivism and inclusivism, states have proven to adopt a more structural approach to the respect of the former in consciousness of the esteem of international law governing sovereignty and territorial integrity. However, frontier peoples and their realities have often opted for the latter situation, imposing a more functionalist perception of these imaginary lines and prompting a border opinion shift to a more blurring form of representation and meaning in most African communities. This collective multidisciplinary effort of understanding how tangible and intangible borders have influenced Africas attitude and existence for ages is worthy in its own rights. The difference between what borders are and what they are not to a people is the mere product of their own estimations and practices, a disposition that leads the contributors to this book to study borders beyond states or nations and how borders are crossed or transferred from one point to the other for the convenience of their histories and being.

Contents:

part 1. Peoples, administration and mobility. Administration cantonale et dynamique sociopolitique dans les monts Mandara camerounais et nigerians (1916-1958) / Samuel Kamougnana

Fiscalite et dynamique des migrations transfrontalieres entre le Cameroun, le Tchad et le Nigeria sous la periode coloniale et postcoloniale / Pahimi Patrice

Dynamique des rapports entre societe et individu chez les Gbaya-yaayuwee en Afrique : entre continuite et rupture / Banese Betare Elias

Femmes et mobilites d'affaires entre le Cameroun et les pays d'Afrique de l'ouest : fonctionnement et enjeux / François Wassouni

Terrorist transnational imprints, border closing and circulation around the Lake Basin Region : Boko Haram against human and merchandise on the Nigeria-Cameroon of Far North Cameroon / Mark Bolak Funteh and Canute Ngwa

part 2. Conflict, insecurity and peace. The authority of consensual thoughts and rituals in boundary dispute settlement in Cameroon : the case of the pre-colonial Cameroon grassfields states / Canute Ngwa and Damian Tatazo Akara

Grassfields states boundary conflicts in Northwest Cameroon : a historical investigation / Jabiru Muhammadou Amadou

L'acuite des conflits frontaliers entre les chefferies Bamileke à L'ouest Cameroun : le asc de Bangou-Babouantou / Rodrigue de Paul Kepgang

Women as symbols and swords in Boko Haram's terror / Ankiabom L. Lawyer

Insecurite transfrontaliere, mouvements des populations et risques sanitaires dans le camp des refugies de Minawao Mokolo (Extrême-nord, Cameroun) / Eloundou Messi Paul Basile

From transnational to national security, the changing pattern of ethno-military systems in the post-independence Chad : comparative study from Tombalbaye to Deby / Ousmanou Adama

part three. State creation, building and sustenance. État postcolonial et problematique identitaire : la nation politique / Nguemba Guillaume

Probleme de l'imprecision des frontieres chez les pays Tupuri du Cameroun / David Wala

Security crises in Cameroon coastal towns : Bakassi freedom fighters' reaction to international decision over the Bakassi Peninsula / Mark Bolak Funteh

Strong power exert follow-up as a fundamental ethnic and "agitational" blend for nation building and up-keeping in Cameroon / Ernest Kum

Musee et ecole au Cameroun : strategie pour briser les frontieres dans leur mission educative / Zacharie Duflot Tatuebu

Emerging market multinational corporations across borders : analyses of their implication in Africa's development / Kingsly Awang Ollong

Esquisse d'une theorie normative du federalisme en Afrique / Anatole Fogo.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789956550784

9956550787

OCLC:

1085638922