An Appraisal of Michel Foucher's African Borders: Putting Paid to a Myth. Issue 2 (14th March 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Asiwaju, Anthony I.
• Is Part Of: Journal of borderlands studies. Volume 35:Issue 2(2020)
• Page Start: 309
• Page End: 310
• Publication Date: 2020-03-14
• Subjects: Africa -- borderlands -- colonialism -- geopolitics; Mexican-American Border Region -- Periodicals; United States -- Relations -- Mexico -- Periodicals; Mexico -- Relations -- United States -- Periodicals; Borderlands -- Periodicals; ESTADOS UNIDOS -- RELACIONES -- MEXICO -- PUBLICACIONES PERIODICAS; MEXICO -- RELACIONES -- ESTADOS UNIDOS -- PUBLICACIONES PERIODICAS; Borderlands; International relations; Mexico; North America -- Mexican-American Border Region; United States; Periodicals; 303.48273072
• DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2019.1671210
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0886-5655

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This review interrogates the apparently colonialist apology in the argument by the author of the publication under scrutiny, that the boundaries of independent African state territories, within and especially externally, are, after all, not the European contraptions they have hitherto been presumed in existing works. It argued in support of the status quo, that the boundaries are, in the main, European impositions, inherited with little or no modifications by the inheritance elites as at the at the dates of the independences.