Publications
Essential Reading and Resources on African Borders
Selected Books on Borders
African Boundaries, a Legal and Diplomatic Encyclopaedia
By Ian Brownlie, with the assistance of Ian R. Burns. London: C. Hurst & Co. for the Royal Institute of International Affairs; also Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1979.
The Map of Africa by Treaty
By Sir Edward Hertslet, Richard William Brant, Harry Leslie Sherwood; London: Printed for H. M. Stationery off. by Harrison and sons, 1909.
International Boundaries of East Africa
By A. C. McEwen. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971.
Political Frontiers and Boundary Making
By T. H. Holdich; London, 1916.
The Cartographic State: Maps, Territory and the Origins of Sovereignty
By Jordan Branch; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014
Rethinking maps: new frontiers in cartographic theory
Dodge, Martin; Kitchen, Rob; Perkins, C. R., New York: Routledge, 2011.
African Boundaries: Barriers, Conduits and Opportunities
Edited by Paul Nugent and A.I. Asiwaju; London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 1996.
Selected Articles & Papers
Resources and border disputes in Eastern Africa
By Wafula Okumu, in Journal of Eastern African Studies, Vol. 4, Issue 2, 2010.
The Purpose and Functions of International Boundaries: With Specific Reference to Africa
By Wafula Okumu, in African Union Handbook on Delimitation and Demarcation, 2010.
The Nature of African Boundaries
By Adekunle Ajala; Africa Spectrum, Vol. 18, No. 2, 1983.
Africa’s Political Boundaries: Colonial Cartography, the OAU, and the Advisability of Ethno-National Adjustment
By Emmanuel N. Amadife and James W. Warhola; International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, Vol. 6, No. 4, Summer, 1993.
African boundaries and their interpreters
By Maano Ramutsindela; Geopolitics,Vol. 4, Issue 2: 1999, pp. 180-198.
The Creation and Maintenance of National Boundaries in Africa
By Jeffrey Herbst; International Organization, Vol. 43, Issue 4, Autumn 1989.
Lines upon Maps: Africa and the Sanctity of African Boundaries
By Garth Abraham; African Journal of International and Comparative Law, Vol. 15, No. 1, 2007.
Why Redraw the Map of Africa: A Moral and Legal Inquiry
By Makau wa Mutua; Michigan Journal of International Law, Vol.16, Issue 4,1995.
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