Boundaries & history in Africa
Subtitle: issues in conventional boundaries and ideological frontiers (festschrift in Honour of Verkijika G. Fanso)
By: edited by Daniel Abwa, Albert-Pascal Temgoua, E.S.D. Fomin, Willibroad Dze-Ngwa
Contributors: Fanso, Verkijika G., honoree
Published: 2013
Language: eng; fre
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 614
ISBN-13: 9789956791026; 9789956791019
Subjects: Boundaries; History; Historiography
Other titles: Project Muse UPCC books.
Description: This book compromises 26 well-researched essays in honour of Professor Verkijika G. Fanso, who retired in 2011 after over 36 years of distinguished service at universities in Cameroon. Contributors include colleagues, former students and close collaborators in Cameroon and beyond. Contributions cover a wide range of issues related to the contested histories, politics and practices of boundaries and frontiers in Africa. These are themes on which Fanso has researched, published and taught extensively, and earned international recognition as a leading scholar. The book explores, inter alia, indigenous and endogenous practices of boundary making in Africa; as well as colonial and contemporary traditions, practices and conflicts on and around frontiers. In particular focus, are disputed colonial boundaries between Cameroon and its neighbours. Issues of intra- and inter-disciplinary frontiers, politics and cultures are also addressed. The volume is crowned by a farewell valedictory lecture by Fanso. Like Fanso and his rich repertoire of publications, this bumper harvest of essays is without doubt, truly immortalising.
Notes: Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.

Includes bibliographical references.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Chapters in English and French.

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Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Acknowledgements; title: Introduction; title: The man : Professor Verkijika G. Fanso; title: Conventional boundaries of states and polities; title: Frontiers in academic disciplines, politics and cultures.