Respacing Africa

Ulf Engel, Dr. phil. (1994) and Habilitation (1999) in Political Science, is a Professor of Politics in Africa at the University of Leipzig. He has published extensively on Africa's international relations. He also co-edited African Alternatives (with L. de Haan and P. Chabal; Brill, 2007).Paul Nugent, Ph.D. (1991), SOAS, is Professor of Comparative African History and Director of the Centre of African Studies at the University of Edinburgh. He has published three monographs, including Africa Since Independence (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), and has a particular interest in border spaces. Paul is the current President of AEGIS.

• CONTENTSIntroduction: The spatial turn in African studies ........................ 1Ulf Engel and Paul NugentActors, places, regions, and global forces: An essay on the spatial history of Africa since 1700 ......... 11Allen M. HowardState, region and space in Africa .................................................... 45Fredrik Söderbaum and Ian TaylorSiamese twin towns and unitary concepts in border inequality .................................................................. 71David B. CoplanRespacing for peace, security and sustainable development: The African Union Border Programme in Europeancomparative historical perspective ............................................. 89Anthony I. AsiwajuStaying put in moving sands. The stepwise migration process of sub-Saharan African migrants heading north .............. 113Joris SchapendonkReshaping Congolese statehood in the midst of crisis and transition .................................. 139Timothy Raeymaekers and Koen VlassenrootThe neo-tribal competitive order in the borderland of Egypt and Libya ................................. 169Thomas HüskenList of contributors ............................................................................ 207Index .................................................................................................... 211