Book(print) World Affairs Online1996

African boundaries: barriers, conduits, and opportunities

Nugent, Paul; Asiwaju, Anthony I.; Conference on the Topic of African Boundaries and Borderlands

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Abstract

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.

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