COVID-19 and African borders in transition / Samuel Kehinde Okunade, Leon Mwamba Tshimpaka, Willie Eselebor, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Okunade, Samuel Kehinde, editor.

Mwamba Tshimpaka, Leon, editor.

Eselebor, Willie Aziegbe, editor.

EBSCOhost

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Africa--Boundaries.

Africa.

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Social aspects.

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023.

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Political aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 214 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Place of Publication:

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2025.

Contents:

Chapter 1: African borders: past, present and the future

Chapter 2: Striving across multifaceted borders: Congolese disabled cross-border traders contending with poliomyelitis and the COVID-19 pandemic

Chapter 3: Interrogating the challenges of cross-border management in the SADC region

Chapter 4: COVID-19 restrictions, border closures and regional mobility in East Africa

Chapter 5: Navigating economic challenges in West Africa: a post-COVID-19 assessment of petroleum smuggling and local coping strategies in the Imeko border town

Chapter 6: Feast of preys: COVID-19, transnationality of armed banditry, and border (under)governability in Northwest Nigeria

Chapter 7: The discriminatory power of borders: situational analysis of disunion in West Africa

Chapter 8: Cosmopolitanism and the borderless COVID-19 pandemic: towards a collective and shared humanity

Chapter 9: The crossroads of integration: the implications of delayed ratification of the Free Movement protocol in Africa in a post-COVID-19 era

Chapter 10: Towards a borderless and shared humanity in the post-COVID new normal in Africa.

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed April 22, 2025).

ISBN:

9783031828928

3031828925

Publisher Number:

90102076097

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.