Borderlands and Frontiers in Africa
By: edited by Steven Van Wolputte
Series: Afrikanische Studien -- Band 40 = -- African studies -- volume 40; Afrikanische Studien (Münster in Westfalen, Germany) -- Bd. 40.
Publisher: Lit
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Zürich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9783643903334
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Grenze; Borderlands; Grenzgebiet; Boundaries; Case studies; Kolonialismus; Mossi; Fulbe; Massai
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A history of Mozambique's southern border : the archives of the Portuguese commission of cartography  -- Ana Cristina Roque; title: Mossi-Fulbe borderlands : towards a history of interconnectedness  -- Mark Breusers; title: Shaping new territories : the discursive construction of boundaries in suburban Dakar  -- Eline Versluys; title: A crippled Bula Matari : a historical account of labour, migration and borders in the Rwandese-Congolese borderland  -- Gillian Mathys; title: Fenced frontiers and murky boundaries : two cases from Kaoko, northern Namibia  -- Steven Van Wolputte, Eis Hoorelbeke and Laura Bleckmann; title: On the borders of race, mission, and state : African Americans and the American Presbyterian congo mission  -- Ira Dworkin; title: Borders of the present : Maasai tradition, modernity, and female identity -- Tammary Esho, Paul Enzlin and Steven Van Wolputte-- Index.