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Big men, small boys and politics in Ghana : power, ideology and the burden of history, 1982-1994
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ISBN: 1855673738 Year: 1995 Publisher: London, England New York, N.Y. Pinter

Smugglers, secessionists & loyal citizens on the Ghana-Togo frontier : the lie of the Borderlands since 1914.
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ISBN: 0821414828 082141481X Year: 2002 Publisher: Oxford James Currey


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Boundaries, communities and state-making in West Africa : the centrality of the margins
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ISBN: 1139105825 1108612474 1108600808 1107020689 1107622506 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Border regions are often considered to be the neglected margins. In this book, Paul Nugent argues that through a comparison of the Senegambia and the trans-Volta (Ghana/Togo), we can see that the geographical margins have shaped notional centres at least as much as the reverse. Through a study of three centuries of history, this book demonstrates that states were forged through an extended process of converting a topography of settled states and slaving frontiers into colonial borders. It argues that post-colonial states and larger social contracts have been configured very differently as a consequence. It underscores the impact on regional dynamics and the phenomenon of peripheral urbanism. Nugent also addresses the manner in which a variegated sense of community has been forged amongst Mandinka, Jola, Ewe and Agotime populations who have both shaped and been shaped by the border. This is an exercise in reciprocal comparison and shuttles between scales, from the local and the particular to the national and the regional.


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Transport Corridors in Africa
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ISBN: 1800104766 Year: 2022 Publisher: Woodbridge : Boydell & Brewer,

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The image of the corridor, a central pathway of road and rail carving its way through Africa's interior, has guided the coordination of transport and trade developments on the continent in recent decades. Existing analysis of the "Corridor"--A label with a great capacity to change shape, guiding funding and infrastructural priorities at different times and in different settings - tends to be presentist, technical, and conveyed in the language of transport economics. The chapters collected here showcase a more varied approach, offering perspectives from academics and policy-makers coming from a range of disciplinary backgrounds. They capture the varied forms of the corridor concept (developmental, transport, and trade corridors), the multiplicity of actors (including China and the European Union), as well as the different permutations of the infrastructure itself, in corridors linking coastal states and in others that link coastal states with the hinterland. The breadth of cases allows for a comparative perspective of East, West, and Southern Africa, as well as the basis of comparisons outside of the continent in Europe, South Asia, and elsewhere. The motivations behind corridor initiatives in Africa range enormously, from resource extraction to urban development and poverty reduction. A lot depends on scale, and this collection places the grand designs thrashed out at continental and regional economic forums alongside the individual concerns of drivers and cross-border traders hauling goods across the continent's checkpoints. What emerges are a number of central tensions in the study of transport corridors: between short-term optics and long-term durability; between road and rail as modes of transportation; between regional integration and national interest; between the facilitation of trade and the generation of corridor revenue; between different port configurations; and between local dynamics and the dynamics of long-distance transportation. This book is available as Open Access under the Creative Commons license CC-BY-NC.

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Corridors.


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Boundaries, communities, and state-making in West Africa : the centrality of the margins
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ISBN: 9781107020689 9781107622500 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Politics --- West Africa

Smugglers, secessionists and loyal citizens on the Ghana-Togo frontier: the lie of the borderlands since 1914
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ISBN: 0852554737 0852554729 Year: 2002 Publisher: Oxford Currey

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History of Africa --- Ghana --- Togo


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African cities : competing claims on urban spaces
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ISBN: 9789004162648 900416264X 9786612397738 1282397737 9047442482 9789047442486 9781282397736 661239773X Year: 2009 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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Contemporary Africa is undergoing a period of unprecedented urban expansion, which is throwing up new challenges in the provision of essential services and contentious questions about ownership of urban spaces. This volume explores the interconnections between these processes, whilst avoiding the tendency to forget that cities are also embedded in deeper historical processes that are integral to the framing of entitlements. Histories of migrancy and the creation of urban 'stranger' communities are fundamental in deciding who lives where and what this means, materially and socially. The gated communities that are springing up are often layered across older forms of urban segregation and/or segmentation. Urban water and food supply, the management of urban land claims, inequality and popular culture are closely examined.


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Respacing Africa.
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ISBN: 9789004178335 Year: 2010 Publisher: Leiden Brill


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Africa since independence : a comparative history
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ISBN: 9780230272873 9780230272880 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York ; Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan

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Politics --- Africa

Africa since independence : a comparative history
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ISBN: 9780333682739 0333682726 0333682734 Year: 2004

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