"Contemporary transnational circulation of goods in Africa: A form of legitimation of State borders"

(De facto) Historical Ethnic Borders and Contemporary Conflict in Africa

We explore the effect of historical ethnic borders on contemporary conflict in Africa. We document t

Borderline Disorder: (De facto) Historical Ethnic Borders and Contemporary Conflict in Africa

We explore the effect of historical ethnic borders on contemporary non-civil conflict in Africa. Exploiting variations across artificial regions (i.e., grids of 50x50km) within an ethnicity's historical homeland, we document that both the intensive and extensive ma

A Transnational Canon of African Literatures in Portuguese?: Mia Couto, José Eduardo Agualusa and the Circulation of Lusophone African Literature

Abstract African literatures in Portuguese were first canonized in the 1970s. During and in the wak

State versus tribal borders: Problems of irredentism in modern Libyan state-building process

This article sets out to examine the tensions that exist in post-Gaddafi Libya with respect to the e

Geopolitics of Land Borders Closure in West Africa

This article discuss how a border policy of a particular country shaped the economic, political and

Transnational Islam: Circulation of Religious Ideas, Actors and Practices between Niger and Nigeria , by Elodie Apard, ed.