Sub-Saharan African Borderlands. Towards New Theoretical and Practical Approach to the Development of Africa

• Authors: Arkadiusz Żukowski

Abstracts

EN

Cooperation in terms of Afro-regions should largely be based on the experience of Euro-regions, but necessarily must take into account African specifics, especially through the use of a far greater degree of informal cross-border economy and trade. Borderlands as regions of cooperation constitute the realization of the idea of integration from the bottom. This will foster a process of open borders, which in turn will lead to a real acceleration of the integration processes. Moreover, on both sides of the border / boundaries it is possible to start the process of regional identity, especially among the young generation, which would be a kind of “resurrection” of existing links from the pre-colonial past.

Keywords

EN

African borderlands; sub-Saharan; colonial history; development of Africa

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: Polish Political Science Yearbook
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 41
• Pages: 98-115

Dates

published

2012

Contributors

author

Arkadiusz Żukowski

• University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn (Poland)

Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/ppsy2012005

Biblioteka Nauki

2023474