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SUMMARY:Colonial boundary making and local communities in the Niger-Nigeri
 a borderland - Camille Lefebvre\, Centre d’Études des Mondes Africains\
 , Paris
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DTEND:20130128T180000Z
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CONTACT:Judith Weik
DESCRIPTION:The denunciation of the supposed artificiality of African boun
 daries has long prevented work on how they were built. The boundary making
  was considered as the sole result of European diplomatic issues decided i
 n Europe in which Africans had no say. Accordingly\, many studies focused 
 on the consequences and impact of African boundaries\, without asking how 
 and why they were drawn that way. By looking at the practices of European 
 and African local actors of the boundary making this paper will question t
 he role of African authorities and local history in the drawing of today
 ’s Niger-Nigeria borderland. This boundary has the specificity that from
  the very beginning it was decided that it would follow the limits of an A
 frican state\, the Sokoto Caliphate. From their first treaty in1890 until 
 the 1910’s\, France and Great Britain discussed for almost 20 years the 
 exact extension of Sokoto. Several missions were dispatched to the field t
 o ascertain through local inquiries who regarded Sokoto as their leader an
 d who considered himself independent from Sokoto. This presentation will f
 ocus on very local negotiations\, sometimes violent\, sometimes pacific\, 
 between several villages of the Dallol Maouri\, French and British militar
 y\, Kebbi and Sokoto.\n
LOCATION:Seminar Room S1 Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge
  CB3 9DT
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