The Gambia-Senegal Border: Issues in Regional Integration

ISBN-13: 9780367728731 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 226 str.

Mariama Khan

Opis

This book interrogates the validity of longstanding claims that Gambians and Senegalese are "one" people in two countries and explores how that claim intersects with the politics and development needs of the two countries.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. The Politics of Senegambian Kinship Discourses  2. The Political and Economic Context of the Gambia-Senegal Border  3. Transport, Cross-Border Practices and Interstate Political Relations  4. Politics and the Disintegration of the Common Transport Newtwork, 2000-2015  5. Tactics for Survival: Jakarta, Civil Society and the Media  6. Cross-Border Trade and the Gambia-Senegal Relations  7. Senegambia's Talibee Networks, the State and Cross-Border Exchange  8. Conclusion

O autorze

Mariama Khan is a Gambian scholar, poet, filmmaker and cultural activist. She currently teaches African History, West African Cinema and African Civilizations at the Lehman College Africana Studies Department, City University of New York (CUNY).