Borders mobility regional integration and development : issues dynamics and perspectives in West Eastern and Southern Africa This book examines social economic and political issues in West Eastern and Southern Africa in relation to borders human mobility and regional integration. In the process it highlights the innovative aspects of human agency on the African continent and presents a range of empirical case studies that shed new light on Africas social economic and political realities. Further the book explores cooperation between African nation states including their historical socioeconomic interconnections and governance of transboundary natural resources. Moreover the book examines the relationship between the spatial mobility of borders and development and the migration regimes of nation states that share contiguous borders in different geographic territories. Further topics include the coloniality of borders sociocultural and ethnic relations and the impact of physical borders on human mobility and wellbeing. Given its scope the book represents a unique resource that offers readers a wealth of new insights into todays Africa. Part I: Borders Mobility And Integration In Africa: Concepts And Issues Chapter 1: Borders human mobility integration and development in Africa: An introduction Chapter 2: Imagining borders borderlands migration and integration in Africa: The search for connections and disjunctures Chapter 3: Regional integration borders and development in Africa Chapter 4: Perspectives on contemporary migration and regional integration in Central Africa Chapter 5: Basotho miners and zama zama in disused commercial gold mines in Gauteng Province South Africa Part II: Borders The Governance Question And Integration Chapter 6: Shopping oriented mobility across the Zimbabwe South Africa border: Modalities and encounters Chapter 7: The security challenges of a borderless Africa: Issues and perspectives­ Chapter 8: Invisible visible borders between Zambia and Zimbabwe along the Zambezi Valley: Tonga fisherman cross border livelihoods and monetary practices Chapter 9: Migration and the spatial mobility of borders in the Southern African region Part III: Borders The Transboundary Natural Resources Question And Integration Chapter 10: Prospects for Cooperation in the Nile Basin Chapter 11: Community based conservation in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park: On livelihoods and economic governance Chapter 12: Bordered environment: Redefining transboundary water resources into environmentally sound governance frameworks in Southern Africa Chapter 13: Conclusion:Borders mobility and integration in Africa revisited: Towards a new understanding of African realities.