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Title:The Anglophone Cameroon-Nigeria Boundary: Opportunities and Conflicts
Author:Konings, PietISNI
Year:2005
Periodical:African Affairs: The Journal of the Royal African Society
Volume:104
Issue:415
Period:April
Pages:275-301
Language:English
Geographic terms:Nigeria
Cameroon
Subjects:conflict
boundaries
colonialism
History and Exploration
Inter-African Relations
Politics and Government
Urbanization and Migration
Economics and Trade
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/3518445
Abstract:Recent studies of African boundaries have tended to focus either on the growing number of border disputes between States or on frontier regions that are said to offer local inhabitants a wide range of economic opportunities. This article combines both approaches and demonstrates the ambiguous nature of the Anglophone Cameroon-Nigeria border. On the one hand, the border has been subject to regular skirmishes between Cameroon and Nigeria, culminating in a protracted war over the sovereignty of the Bakassi peninsula - an area rich in oil reserves. On the other hand, it has for historical and economic reasons never constituted a real barrier to cross-border movements of labour and goods. The large Nigerian migrant community in Anglophone Cameroon, in particular, has been able to benefit from formal and informal cross-border trade for a long time. Unsurprisingly, its dominant position in the host community's commercial sector has been a continuous source of conflict. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]
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